Bill Text: TX SB1337 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 1337 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance to political subdivisions for water supply projects.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-27 - House passage as amended reported [SB1337 Detail]

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	By: Perry	S.B. No. 1337
	(In the Senate - Filed March 11, 2015; March 18, 2015, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water, and
	Rural Affairs; April 7, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
	April 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1337	By: Perry


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to
	provide financial assistance to political subdivisions for water
	supply projects.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 16.053(j), Water Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(j) The board may provide financial assistance to political
	subdivisions for water supply projects under Subchapter J, Chapter
	15, if the financial assistance is under the safe drinking water
	revolving fund, and for water supply projects under Subchapters E
	and F of this chapter, Subchapters C, [D,] E, [~~F, J, O,~~] Q, and R,
	Chapter 15, and Subchapters D, I, K, and L, Chapter 17, [~~for water~~
	~~supply projects~~] only if:
	(1) the board determines that the needs to be
	addressed by the project will be addressed in a manner that is
	consistent with the state water plan;
	(2) beginning January 5, 2002, the board:
	(A) has approved a regional water plan as
	provided by Subsection (i), and any required updates of the plan,
	for the region of the state that includes the area benefiting from
	the proposed project; and
	(B) determines that the needs to be addressed by
	the project will be addressed in a manner that is consistent with
	that regional water plan; and
	(3) the board finds that the water audit required
	under Section 16.0121 has been completed and filed.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
	a vote of two-thirds of all the 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, 2015.

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