Bill Text: TX SB18 | 2011 | 82nd Legislature 1st Special | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to water management plans for certain special water authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-31 - Filed [SB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB18-Introduced.html
| By: Fraser | S.B. No. 18 | |
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| relating to water management plans for certain special water | ||
| authorities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 49.2127 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 49.2127. WATER MANAGEMENT PLANS FOR CERTAIN SPECIAL | ||
| WATER AUTHORITIES. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Authority" means a special water authority to | ||
| which this section applies under Subsection (b). | ||
| (2) "Firm water" means a supply of stored water that | ||
| could be supplied without shortage during each year of a simulated | ||
| repeat of the drought of record, while honoring all senior water | ||
| rights. During a drought of record, the supply of water for firm | ||
| water customers has a higher priority than that of interruptible | ||
| water customers. | ||
| (3) "Interruptible water" means a stored supply of | ||
| water for customers of an authority that must be curtailed before | ||
| the authority curtails firm water supplies. | ||
| (b) This section applies only to a special water authority | ||
| whose water management plan consists of a reservoir operation plan | ||
| for the operation of two water supply reservoirs and was: | ||
| (1) developed by an applicant for a permit under | ||
| Chapter 11; and | ||
| (2) originally required by a court order adjudicating | ||
| the water rights for those reservoirs. | ||
| (c) An authority's water management plan must: | ||
| (1) ensure that adequate firm water supplies are | ||
| available to meet the existing and projected demands of firm water | ||
| customers to the extent: | ||
| (A) provided by previously adjudicated water | ||
| rights; and | ||
| (B) other supplies are not available to the | ||
| authority to meet those firm water customer demands; and | ||
| (2) provide for curtailing water supplies under | ||
| interruptible commitments before requesting that firm water | ||
| customers institute voluntary drought contingency measures. | ||
| SECTION 2. A special water authority to which Section | ||
| 49.2127, Water Code, as added by this Act, applies shall adopt or | ||
| amend its rules and its water management plan as required to | ||
| implement Section 49.2127, Water Code, as added by this Act. | ||
