Bill Text: TX SB1337 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft
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]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1337-Comm_Sub.html
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]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1337-Comm_Sub.html
By: Perry | S.B. No. 1337 | |
(Lucio III) | ||
|
||
|
||
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, [ |
||
Chapter 15, and Subchapters D, I, K, and L, Chapter 17, [ |
||
|
||
(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. |