Bill Text: TX HB3467 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3467

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the disclosure by a seller of certain real property to the purchaser of the property of information regarding the process for obtaining a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for the storage, taking, or diversion of state water.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-24 - Referred to Natural Resources [HB3467 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB3467-Introduced.html

	89R3267 JAM-D

	By: Goodwin	H.B. No. 3467



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the disclosure by a seller of certain real property to
	the purchaser of the property of information regarding the process
	for obtaining a permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental
	Quality for the storage, taking, or diversion of state water.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 5, Property Code, is
	amended by adding Section 5.0111 to read as follows:
	Sec. 5.0111. SELLER'S NOTICE REGARDING APPROPRIATION OF
	STATE WATER. A person who sells an interest in real property in
	this state that contains or is adjacent to state water shall give to
	the purchaser of the property a written notice that conforms to the
	standard notice adopted by the Texas Commission on Environmental
	Quality under Section 11.121, Water Code, relating to the
	appropriation of state water.
	SECTION 2. Section 11.121, Water Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 11.121. PERMIT REQUIRED; NOTICE TO CERTAIN PURCHASERS
	OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) Except as provided in Sections 11.1405,
	11.142, 11.1421, 11.1422, and 18.003, no person may appropriate any
	state water or begin construction of any work designed for the
	storage, taking, or diversion of water without first obtaining a
	permit from the commission to make the appropriation.
	(b) The commission by rule shall adopt a standard notice for
	a purchaser of real property that contains or is adjacent to state
	water. The notice must be designed to inform a purchaser of:
	(1) the requirements of this section; and
	(2) the process by which a person may obtain from the
	commission a permit authorizing the storage, taking, or diversion
	of state water.
	SECTION 3. Section 5.0111, Property Code, as added by this
	Act, applies only to a sale or conveyance of property for which a
	binding contract is executed on or after January 1, 2026. A sale or
	conveyance for which a binding contract is executed before that
	date is governed by the law in effect on the date the contract is
	executed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	SECTION 4. Not later than December 31, 2025, the Texas
	Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt the notice required
	by Section 11.121, Water Code, as amended by this Act.
	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.