By: Perry S.B. No. 696
(In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2017; February 15, 2017,
read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water &
Rural Affairs; April 27, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0;
April 27, 2017, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 696 By: Perry
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a requirement that the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality obtain or develop updated water availability
models for certain river basins.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 16.012, Water Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (h-1) to read as follows:
(h-1) Not later than December 1, 2020, the commission shall
obtain or develop updated water availability models for the Brazos,
Guadalupe, San Antonio, Sulphur, and Rio Grande River basins. The
commission may collect data from all jurisdictions that allocate
the waters of the rivers, including jurisdictions outside this
state. This subsection expires September 1, 2021.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect only if a specific
appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a
general appropriations act of the 85th Legislature.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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