By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo, Hinojosa of Nueces, Perry S.B. No. 1967
(In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2025; March 17, 2025, read
first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and
Rural Affairs; April 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the projects eligible for financial assistance from the
flood infrastructure fund.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 15.531(2), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(2) "Flood project" means a drainage, flood
mitigation, or flood control project, including:
(A) planning and design activities;
(B) work to obtain regulatory approval to provide
nonstructural and structural flood mitigation and drainage;
(C) construction of structural flood mitigation
and drainage infrastructure; [and]
(D) construction and implementation of
nonstructural projects, including projects that use nature-based
features to protect, mitigate, or reduce flood risk; and
(E) construction of multi-purpose flood
mitigation and drainage infrastructure projects that control,
divert, capture, or impound floodwater, stormwater, agricultural
runoff water, or treated wastewater effluent and treat and
distribute the water for the purpose of creating an additional
source of water supply.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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