Bill Text: TX HB2812 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of public water supply wells from regulation, permitting, or metering by the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - Filed [HB2812 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2812-Introduced.html
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| By: Isaac | H.B. No. 2812 | |
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| relating to the exemption of public water supply wells from | ||
| regulation, permitting, or metering by the Hays Trinity Groundwater | ||
| Conservation District. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 8843.104(a), Special District Local Laws | ||
| Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Groundwater withdrawals from the following wells may | ||
| not be regulated, permitted, or metered by the district: | ||
| (1) a well used for domestic use by a single private | ||
| residential household and incapable of producing more than 25,000 | ||
| gallons per day; [ |
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| (2) a well used for conventional farming and ranching | ||
| activities, including such intensive operations as aquaculture, | ||
| livestock feedlots, or poultry operations; and | ||
| (3) a public water supply well. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
