Bill Text: TX SB2406 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed
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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-Engrossed.html
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-Engrossed.html
By: Creighton | 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. |