By: Price (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 1648
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2017;
May 3, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 10, 2017, reported
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; May 10, 2017,
sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the designation of a water conservation coordinator by
a retail public water utility to implement a water conservation
plan.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 13.146, Water Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 13.146. WATER CONSERVATION PLAN. The commission shall
require a retail public utility that provides potable water service
to 3,300 or more connections to:
(1) submit to the executive administrator of the board
a water conservation plan based on specific targets and goals
developed by the retail public utility and using appropriate best
management practices, as defined by Section 11.002, or other water
conservation strategies;
(2) designate a person as the water conservation
coordinator responsible for implementing the water conservation
plan; and
(3) identify, in writing, the water conservation
coordinator to the executive administrator of the board.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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