Bill Text: TX SB2406 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of hospitals in certain counties to drill a water well for the purpose of producing water for use in the event of an emergency or natural disaster.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB2406 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2406-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 2406 | ||
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| relating to the authority of hospitals in certain counties to drill | ||
| a water well for the purpose of producing water for use in the event | ||
| of an emergency or natural disaster. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 311, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 311.005 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 311.005. WATER WELLS FOR USE BY HOSPITALS IN CERTAIN | ||
| COUNTIES IN EVENT OF EMERGENCY OR NATURAL DISASTER. (a) This | ||
| section applies only to a hospital located in a county that: | ||
| (1) has a population of more than 250,000; and | ||
| (2) borders the Neches River. | ||
| (b) A hospital to which this section applies may drill a | ||
| water well on property owned by the hospital for the purpose of | ||
| producing water to supplement the hospital's water supply in the | ||
| event that an emergency or natural disaster prevents the hospital | ||
| from receiving water from the hospital's usual source. | ||
| (c) This section does not affect the authority of a | ||
| groundwater conservation district to regulate groundwater | ||
| production under Chapter 36, Water Code, or other law governing a | ||
| groundwater conservation district. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2406 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 20, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2406 passed the House on | ||
| May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 117, Nays 21, | ||
| one present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
