Bill Text: TX HB2954 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the relocation or removal of dredged spoils or materials by a navigation district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Filed [HB2954 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB2954-Introduced.html
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| By: Metcalf | H.B. No. 2954 | |
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| relating to the relocation or removal of dredged spoils or | ||
| materials by a navigation district. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 60, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 60.1021 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 60.1021. RELOCATION OR REMOVAL OF DREDGED SPOILS OR | ||
| MATERIALS. (a) If a district requires the relocation or removal of | ||
| dredged spoils or materials in an exercise of the district's powers | ||
| under this subchapter, the district's power of eminent domain, or | ||
| the district's police power, the district shall: | ||
| (1) pay at the district's sole expense the cost of | ||
| relocating or removing dredged spoils or materials; or | ||
| (2) relocate or remove the dredged spoils or | ||
| materials. | ||
| (b) In this section, "sole expense" means the actual cost of | ||
| the relocation or removal after deducting the net salvage value | ||
| derived from the dredged spoils or materials. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
