Bill Text: TX HB2460 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability models for certain river basins.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-24 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2460 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2460-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2460 | ||
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| relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability | ||
| models for certain river basins. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 16.012, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subsection (h-2) to read as follows: | ||
| (h-2) Not later than December 1, 2026, the commission shall | ||
| obtain or develop updated water availability models for the | ||
| Guadalupe, Lavaca, Nueces, San Antonio, San Jacinto, and Trinity | ||
| River basins. The commission may collect data from all | ||
| jurisdictions that allocate the waters of the rivers, including | ||
| jurisdictions outside this state. This subsection expires | ||
| September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is | ||
| required to implement a provision of this Act only if the | ||
| legislature appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If | ||
| the legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the commission may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2460 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2460 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 10, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
