Bill Text: TX HB2443 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
88R13700 ANG-F | |||
By: Harris of Anderson | H.B. No. 2443 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2443: | |||
By: Price | C.S.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. |