Bill Text: TX SB296 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability models for certain river basins.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-15 - Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs [SB296 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB296-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 296 | |
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| relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability | ||
| models for certain river basins. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16.012, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (h-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (h-2) Not later than December 1, 2026, the commission shall | ||
| obtain or develop updated water availability models for the | ||
| Guadalupe, Lavaca, Nueces, San Antonio, San Jacinto, and Trinity | ||
| River basins. The commission may collect data from all | ||
| jurisdictions that allocate the waters of the rivers, including | ||
| jurisdictions outside this state. This subsection expires | ||
| September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is | ||
| required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
| legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
| the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
