Bill Text: TX HB3608 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the evaluation by Texas Water Development Board of applications for financial assistance for certain retail public utilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-16 - Left pending in committee [HB3608 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3608-Introduced.html
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By: Burnam | H.B. No. 3608 |
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relating to the evaluation by Texas Water Development Board of | ||
applications for financial assistance for certain retail public | ||
utilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 17, Water Code, is amended | ||
by adding Section 17.1245 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 17.1245. EVALUATION. (a) In passing on an application | ||
for financial assistance from a retail public utility that provides | ||
potable water service to 3,300 or more connections, the board | ||
shall: | ||
(1) evaluate for compliance with the board's best | ||
management practices the utility's water conservation plan | ||
required under Section 13.146; and | ||
(2) issue a report to a utility detailing the results | ||
of the evaluation conducted under Subdivision (1). | ||
(b) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the | ||
board shall submit to the legislature a written summary of the | ||
results of evaluations conducted under Subsection (a)(1). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 17.1245, Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to an application for financial assistance | ||
submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
application for financial assistance submitted before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the application was submitted, and the former law is continued | ||
in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |