Bill Text: TX HB4925 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain powers and duties of a drainage district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-23 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB4925 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4925-Introduced.html
| By: Canales | H.B. No. 4925 | |
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| relating to certain powers and duties of a drainage district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 56.111, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.111. CONTROL AND REPAIR OF DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS. | ||
| (a) The board may control and supervise the construction and | ||
| maintenance of canals, drains, ditches and levees, and other | ||
| improvements of the district and shall keep them in repair. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other law, a district described by | ||
| this subsection may control, supervise, finance, purchase, | ||
| construct, acquire, own, operate, maintain, repair, improve, and | ||
| extend inside and outside its boundaries any works, improvements, | ||
| facilities, plants, equipment, and appliances necessary to | ||
| accomplish the creation and operation of a stormwater reclamation | ||
| system and may issue related bonds. This subsection applies only to | ||
| a district located in a county that is located adjacent to the | ||
| United Mexican States, has a population of more than 800,000, and | ||
| contains at least two municipalities each of which has a population | ||
| of 70,000 or more. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all 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. | ||
