By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2124
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 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 publication of the Texas Groundwater Protection
Committee's annual report.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.406(c), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(c) In conjunction with the commission, the committee shall
publish not later than June [April] 1 of each year a joint
groundwater monitoring and contamination report covering the
activities and findings of the committee made during the previous
calendar year. The report must:
(1) describe the current status of groundwater
monitoring programs conducted by or required by each agency at
regulated facilities or in connection with regulated activities;
(2) contain a description of each case of groundwater
contamination documented during the previous calendar year and of
each case of groundwater contamination documented during previous
periods for which enforcement action was incomplete at the time of
issuance of the preceding report; and
(3) indicate the status of enforcement action for each
case of groundwater contamination that is included in the report.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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