Bill Text: TX HB1646 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the use of water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB1646 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB1646-Comm_Sub.html

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88R21175 MP-F
By: King of Uvalde H.B. No. 1646
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1646:
By: Thompson of Brazoria C.S.H.B. No. 1646

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1.34(b), Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd
Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Water withdrawn from the aquifer must be used within:
(1) the boundaries of the authority; or
(2) the geographic area of a certificate of
convenience and necessity any part of which was located within the
boundaries of the authority on June 28, 1996.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.