Bill Text: TX SB2332 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to reporting to the legislature by certain river authorities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-17 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB2332 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2332-Comm_Sub.html
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 2332 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs; | ||
April 24, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 24, 2019, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2332 | By: Creighton |
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relating to reporting to the legislature by certain river | ||
authorities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 5, Water Code, is amended by designating | ||
Chapter 152 as Subtitle A and adding a subtitle heading to read as | ||
follows: | ||
SUBTITLE A. RIVER AUTHORITIES | ||
SECTION 2. Subtitle A, Title 5, Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act, is amended by adding Chapter 150 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 150. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO RIVER AUTHORITIES | ||
Sec. 150.0101. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "Committee" means the standing committee of the | ||
senate with jurisdiction over water resources. | ||
(2) "River authority" means the San Antonio River | ||
Authority or a district: | ||
(A) created by the legislature under the | ||
authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, as a | ||
regional water management entity to provide water development and | ||
planning services and other services to a river basin or portion of | ||
a river basin; | ||
(B) containing one or more counties within its | ||
boundaries; and | ||
(C) governed by a board of directors appointed or | ||
designated wholly or partly by the governor. | ||
Sec. 150.0102. REPORT. (a) In November of the sixth year | ||
after the year in which the Sunset Advisory Commission completed a | ||
review of a river authority, the river authority shall deliver a | ||
report to the committee that explains changes to the river | ||
authority's rules made since the review by the Sunset Advisory | ||
Commission and the consequences of those changes. | ||
(b) The committee may compel testimony by a representative | ||
of the river authority regarding the subject of the report in the | ||
same way the committee may compel testimony from a representative | ||
of a state agency. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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