Bill Text: TX HB1648 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the designation of a water conservation coordinator by a retail public water utility to implement a water conservation plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB1648 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1648-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1648 |
|
||
relating to the designation of a water conservation coordinator by | ||
a retail public water utility to implement a water conservation | ||
plan. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 13.146, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 13.146. WATER CONSERVATION PLAN. The commission shall | ||
require a retail public utility that provides potable water service | ||
to 3,300 or more connections to: | ||
(1) submit to the executive administrator of the board | ||
a water conservation plan based on specific targets and goals | ||
developed by the retail public utility and using appropriate best | ||
management practices, as defined by Section 11.002, or other water | ||
conservation strategies; | ||
(2) designate a person as the water conservation | ||
coordinator responsible for implementing the water conservation | ||
plan; and | ||
(3) identify, in writing, the water conservation | ||
coordinator to the executive administrator of the board. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1648 was passed by the House on April | ||
27, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, 3 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1648 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
18, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 26, Nays 4. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
_____________________ | ||
Governor |