Bill Text: TX HB2460 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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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-Comm_Sub.html
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-Comm_Sub.html
By: King of Uvalde (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 2460 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2023; | ||
April 27, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 4, 2023, reported favorably by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 4, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
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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. | ||
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