Bill Text: TX SB1047 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to funding and activities of the Texas Produced Water Consortium.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-13 - Effective immediately [SB1047 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1047-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to funding and activities of the Texas Produced Water Consortium.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-13 - Effective immediately [SB1047 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1047-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry | S.B. No. 1047 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 21, 2023; March 3, 2023, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & | ||
Rural Affairs; April 17, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to funding and activities of the Texas Produced Water | ||
Consortium. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 109.205(c), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) In this section, "consortium" means the | ||
Texas Produced Water Consortium established by Subchapter E, | ||
Chapter 109, Education Code. | ||
(b) Not later than October 1, 2023, the consortium shall | ||
select a pilot project or program for consideration and | ||
implementation. | ||
(c) Not later than October 1, 2024, the consortium shall | ||
submit to the legislature a report regarding: | ||
(1) the status of the pilot project or program | ||
selected under Subsection (b) of this section; and | ||
(2) any suggested policy, regulatory, or legislative | ||
changes resulting from an analysis of the implementation of the | ||
pilot project or program selected under Subsection (b) of this | ||
section. | ||
(d) The consortium is required to implement a provision of | ||
this section only if the legislature appropriates money | ||
specifically for that purpose. If the legislature does not | ||
appropriate money specifically for that purpose, the consortium | ||
may, but is not required to, implement the provision using other | ||
money available to the consortium for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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