Bill Text: TX SB1209 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to reporting and information availability requirements for persons impounding, diverting, or otherwise using state water; providing a penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-19 - Left pending in committee [SB1209 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1209-Introduced.html
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By: Fraser | S.B. No. 1209 |
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relating to reporting and information availability requirements | ||
for persons impounding, diverting, or otherwise using state water; | ||
providing a penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 11.031(b) and (d), Water Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) A person who fails to file an annual report with the | ||
commission as required by Subsection (a) or fails to timely comply | ||
with a request by the commission to make information available | ||
under Subsection (d) [ |
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an amount not to exceed $5,000 [ |
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the person fails to file the statement or comply with the request | ||
after the applicable deadline [ |
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The state may sue to recover the penalty. | ||
(d) Each person who has a water right issued by the | ||
commission or who impounds, diverts, or otherwise uses state water | ||
shall maintain water use information required under Subsection (a) | ||
on a monthly basis during the months a water rights holder uses | ||
permitted water. The person shall make the information available | ||
to the commission on the commission's request. The executive | ||
director shall establish a reasonable deadline by which a person | ||
must make available information requested by the commission under | ||
this subsection. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 11.031, Water Code, as amended by this | ||
Act, applies only to a report due or a request for information made | ||
on or after the effective date of this Act. A report due or request | ||
made before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date | ||
the report is due or the request is made, and the former law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |