Bill Text: TX HB2443 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain persons to petition a groundwater conservation district to change certain rules.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2443 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2443-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2443 | ||
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| relating to the authority of certain persons to petition a | ||
| groundwater conservation district to change certain rules. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 36, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 36.1025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 36.1025. PETITION TO CHANGE RULES. (a) A person with | ||
| a real property interest in groundwater may petition the district | ||
| where the property that gives rise to the real property interest is | ||
| located to adopt a rule or modify a rule adopted under this chapter. | ||
| (b) The district by rule shall prescribe the form for a | ||
| petition submitted under this section and the procedure for the | ||
| submission, consideration, and disposition of the petition. | ||
| (c) Not later than the 90th day after the date the district | ||
| receives the petition, the district shall: | ||
| (1) deny the petition and provide an explanation for | ||
| the denial; or | ||
| (2) engage in rulemaking consistent with the granted | ||
| petition. | ||
| (d) Nothing in this section may be construed to create a | ||
| private cause of action for a decision to accept or deny a petition | ||
| filed under this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, a groundwater | ||
| conservation district shall adopt rules to implement Section | ||
| 36.1025, Water Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2443 was passed by the House on May 5, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2443 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 21, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
