Bill Text: TX HB1344 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to prioritization of requests for financial assistance from certain funds administered by the Texas Water Development Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-15 - Filed [HB1344 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB1344-Introduced.html

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89R2450 ANG-D
By: Troxclair H.B. No. 1344

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to prioritization of requests for financial assistance
from certain funds administered by the Texas Water Development
Board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 15, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 15.6043 to read as follows:
Sec. 15.6043. PRIORITY FOR CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. In
providing financial assistance from any revolving fund established
under this subchapter, the board shall, to the extent permissible
under federal law, give priority to a request for financial
assistance from a municipality located not more than 50 miles from
an area of high growth.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for financial assistance submitted to the Texas
Water Development Board on or after the effective date of this Act.
An application submitted before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.