By: Averitt S.B. No. 2312
(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2009; March 31, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
April 15, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 15, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eligibility for funds from the water infrastructure
fund from the Texas Water Development Board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subdivision (1), Section 15.971, Water Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(1) "Eligible political subdivision" means a city,
county, district, or authority created under Section 52, Article
III, or Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, including a
groundwater district with a groundwater management plan certified
by the board under Section 36.1072, any other political subdivision
of the state, any interstate compact commission to which the state
is a party, and any nonprofit water supply corporation created and
operating under Chapter 67[:
[(A) a municipality;
[(B) a county;
[(C) a river authority or special law district
that is listed in Section 9.010(b);
[(D) a water improvement district;
[(E) an irrigation district;
[(F) a water control and improvement district;
and
[(G) a groundwater district with a groundwater
management plan certified by the board under Section 36.1072].
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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