89R3929 SCF-D
By: Hinojosa of Hidalgo S.B. No. 448
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain cost sharing requirements for a desalination
facility operating under a public-private partnership.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 2267, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 2267.067 to read as follows:
Sec. 2267.067. COST SHARING REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN
QUALIFYING PROJECTS. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a
comprehensive agreement or service contract for a qualifying
project authorizing the operation of a desalination facility,
including a brackish water desalination facility, shall require a
private entity to pay at least 50 percent of the energy costs to
operate the facility.
(b) This section applies only after a desalination facility
charges the first customer for water produced by the facility.
SECTION 2. Section 2267.067, Government Code, as added by
this Act, applies only to a comprehensive agreement or service
contract executed for a qualifying project authorizing the
operation of a desalination facility that begins charging customers
for water produced by the facility on or after the effective date of
this Act. A comprehensive agreement or service contract executed
for the operation of a desalination facility that began charging
customers for water produced by the facility before the effective
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
agreement or contract was entered into, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.