Bill Text: TX HB2616 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to establish uniform restrictions on the use of water during a drought.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-18 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB2616 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2616-Introduced.html
| 83R2441 JXC-D | ||
| By: Johnson | H.B. No. 2616 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality to establish uniform restrictions on the use of water | ||
| during a drought. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 11.1272, Water Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsections (f), (g), and (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (f) The commission shall by rule: | ||
| (1) establish uniform stages of drought response, | ||
| including measures to be implemented during each stage; and | ||
| (2) designate the types of entities that must | ||
| incorporate the drought response stages in their drought | ||
| contingency plans. | ||
| (g) A wholesale or retail public water supplier or | ||
| irrigation district that the commission requires by rule to | ||
| incorporate drought response stages in its drought contingency plan | ||
| shall establish criteria for the initiation and termination of a | ||
| drought response stage in the service area of the supplier or | ||
| district. | ||
| (h) A wholesale or retail public water supplier or | ||
| irrigation district may not adopt drought response stages other | ||
| than the stages established by commission rule. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2014, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules to implement | ||
| Section 11.1272, Water Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
