Bill Text: TX HB2268 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to create certain special districts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-14 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB2268 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2268-Introduced.html
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| By: Isaac | H.B. No. 2268 | |
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| relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality to create certain special districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 42.042, Local Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (f-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (f-1) The authority of the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality to allow the creation or confirmation of a | ||
| municipal management district, municipal utility district, water | ||
| improvement district, or water control and improvement district, | ||
| master district, or subdistrict in the extraterritorial | ||
| jurisdiction of a municipality under Subsection (f) expires | ||
| September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 375, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 375.027 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 375.027. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO CREATE DISTRICT. The | ||
| commission's authority to create a district by order under this | ||
| chapter expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 51, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 51.053 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.053. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO CREATE DISTRICT OR | ||
| MASTER DISTRICT. The commission's authority to create a | ||
| multi-county district, district with the powers provided by Section | ||
| 51.331, or master district by order under this chapter expires | ||
| September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 51A.003, Water Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: | ||
| (j) The commission's authority to create a subdistrict | ||
| under this chapter expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 5. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 54.038 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.038. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO CREATE DISTRICT. The | ||
| commission's authority to create a district by order under this | ||
| chapter expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 6. Subchapter B, Chapter 55, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 55.0465 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 55.0465. MULTI-COUNTY DISTRICT: EXPIRATION OF | ||
| CREATION AUTHORITY. The authority of the commission and | ||
| commissioners courts to create a multi-county district under this | ||
| chapter expires September 1, 2025. | ||
| SECTION 7. (a) Notwithstanding the changes in law made by | ||
| this Act, a petition for the creation of a district, master | ||
| district, or subdistrict pending before the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality on the effective date of this Act is governed | ||
| by the law in effect on the date the petition was filed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| (b) The changes in law made by this Act do not affect the | ||
| validity of a district, master district, or subdistrict created by | ||
| the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before September 1, | ||
| 2025. | ||
| SECTION 8. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
