Bill Text: TX SB81 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to the naming of a reservoir by certain water districts.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-04-30 - Left pending in committee [SB81 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB81-Engrossed.html
| By: Hall | S.B. No. 81 | |
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| relating to the naming of a reservoir by certain water districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 49, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 49.239 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 49.239. RESERVOIR NAME APPROVAL. (a) Before a | ||
| district may name a reservoir that the district is authorized to | ||
| construct and that the district will own or operate, the district | ||
| must request approval of the name from the commissioners court of | ||
| the county in which the reservoir project site is located. | ||
| (b) If the reservoir project site is located in more than | ||
| one county, the district must request approval of the name from the | ||
| commissioners court of the county in which the reservoir project | ||
| site is principally located. For purposes of this subsection, a | ||
| reservoir project site is principally located in a county if a | ||
| majority of the acreage of the reservoir surface area will be | ||
| located in that county. | ||
| (c) A commissioners court that receives a request from a | ||
| district for the approval of a name for a reservoir under this | ||
| section shall approve or deny the request not later than the 60th | ||
| day after the date the district submits the request. If the | ||
| commissioners court fails to approve or deny the request within the | ||
| period prescribed by this subsection, the request is considered | ||
| approved. | ||
| (d) This section does not prevent a district from soliciting | ||
| input regarding a name for a reservoir from the commissioners court | ||
| of each county in which the reservoir or any part of the reservoir | ||
| will be located. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 49.239, Water Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| applies to a reservoir project that was authorized to be | ||
| constructed before the effective date of this Act but that is not | ||
| complete on the effective date of this Act and a reservoir project | ||
| that is authorized to be constructed on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
