Bill Text: TX HCR118 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Requesting the lieutenant governor and speaker of the house to create a joint interim committee to study the use of state and local partnerships and flood control infrastructure in general to help future-proof Texas against future flood events on a watershed basis.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-01 - Left pending in committee [HCR118 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HCR118-Introduced.html
  86R12395 CLE-D
 
  By: Metcalf H.C.R. No. 118
 
 
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
         WHEREAS, The costly and wrenching destruction of Hurricane
  Harvey demonstrates the importance of moving forward with planning
  and constructing flood mitigation projects on a coordinated and
  collaborative basis; and
         WHEREAS, In Eye of the Storm, the November 2018 report of the
  Governor's Commission to Rebuild Texas, the Governor's Commission
  notes that to "future-proof" Texas against future flood events, the
  structure of a state-local partnership for flood mitigation
  projects needs to be well-planned and widely accepted by
  stakeholders; and
         WHEREAS, To ensure that state and local partnerships for
  flood mitigation projects have widespread support, the Governor's
  Commission proposes a study committee to examine the need for and
  possible structure of a state-local partnership; the committee's
  examination would include how such partnerships could promote
  planning on a watershed basis; the committee would also study flood
  control infrastructure in general, including dams, levees,
  reservoirs, floodgates, and storm drains; and
         WHEREAS, Flood events are both costly and devastating to the
  state and its citizens, and every means to combat them should be
  explored; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby request the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house
  of representatives to create a joint interim committee to study the
  use of state and local partnerships and flood control
  infrastructure in general to help future-proof Texas against future
  flood events on a watershed basis; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the committee be composed of the following
  members: the chair of the House Natural Resources Committee and the
  chair of the Senate Committee on Water and Rural Affairs and two
  members of the senate appointed by the lieutenant governor and two
  members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of
  the house; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the committee submit a full report, including
  findings and recommendations, to the legislature and the governor
  by November 1, 2020; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the committee's proceedings and operations be
  governed by such general rules and policies for interim committees
  as the 86th Texas Legislature may adopt.
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