Bill Text: TX SB2406 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 2406

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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-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Creighton	S.B. No. 2406
	(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2023; March 23, 2023, read
	first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture & Rural
	Affairs; April 17, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable
	Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
	April 17, 2023, sent to printer.)
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	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2406	By: Flores


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	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.

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