Bill Text: TX HB1222 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance to political subdivisions for water supply projects.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1222 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1222-Comm_Sub.html

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84R13967 SMH-D
By: Lucio III H.B. No. 1222
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1222:
By: Larson C.S.H.B. No. 1222

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to
provide financial assistance to political subdivisions for water
supply projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 16.053(j), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(j) The board may provide financial assistance to political
subdivisions for water supply projects under Subchapter J, Chapter
15, if the financial assistance is under the safe drinking water
revolving fund, and for water supply projects under Subchapters E
and F of this chapter, Subchapters C, [D,] E, [F, J, O,] Q, and R,
Chapter 15, and Subchapters D, I, K, and L, Chapter 17, [for water
supply projects] only if:
(1) the board determines that the needs to be
addressed by the project will be addressed in a manner that is
consistent with the state water plan;
(2) beginning January 5, 2002, the board:
(A) has approved a regional water plan as
provided by Subsection (i), and any required updates of the plan,
for the region of the state that includes the area benefiting from
the proposed project; and
(B) determines that the needs to be addressed by
the project will be addressed in a manner that is consistent with
that regional water plan; and
(3) the board finds that the water audit required
under Section 16.0121 has been completed and filed.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.