Bill Text: TX SB1663 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Engrossed

Texas Senate Bill 1663

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Bill Title: Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB1663 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB1663-Engrossed.html



	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 1663


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater
	contamination.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 26.408(b), Water Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(b) As soon as practicable but not [~~Not~~] later than the 30th
	day after the date the commission receives notice under Subsection
	(a) or obtains independent knowledge of groundwater contamination,
	the commission shall make every effort to give notice of the
	contamination by first class mail, e-mail, notice placed on the
	door of a residence, or another effective delivery method to:
	(1) each owner of a private drinking water well that
	may be affected by the contamination;
	(2) [~~and to~~] each applicable groundwater conservation
	district; and
	(3) the residents of each residential address within
	one mile of the site of the contamination.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.