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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB5672

HB5672 updates the statutory boundaries of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County and validates its earlier governmental acts, elections and proceedings.

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Official caption: Relating to the boundaries of, and validating certain acts and proceedings of, the Driftwood Conservation District.

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HB5672 updates the statutory boundaries of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County and validates its earlier governmental acts, elections and proceedings.
The law retains the earlier boundary descriptions and adds six descriptions labeled 65.3766, 19.3018, 4.7233, 1.435, 5.336 and 8.629 acres—104.8017 acres in total.
Validation applies to actions taken before September 1, 2025.
The bill became law without the governor's signature on June 20, 2025, effective September 1, 2025.

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What does it do?

HB5672 updates the statutory boundaries of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County and validates its earlier governmental acts, elections and proceedings. Despite its name, this is an existing municipal utility district, not a countywide groundwater regulator. The 2017 creation law already provided utility, road and other improvement powers; HB5672 does not create a new district or set a new tax rate.

The law retains the earlier boundary descriptions and adds six descriptions labeled 65.3766, 19.3018, 4.7233, 1.435, 5.336 and 8.629 acres—104.8017 acres in total. These are additions to the statutory descriptions, not proof that those properties first entered the district in September 2025. The House analysis attributes the update to annexations the district and City of Dripping Springs had already approved in 2023 and 2025. That background is attributed to the bill author; the enacted legal descriptions control which land is covered.

Validation applies to actions taken before September 1, 2025. It excludes matters already held invalid by a final court judgment and matters involved in litigation on that date if the litigation ultimately produces a final judgment holding them invalid. It is not a blanket bar on lawsuits. The law also records compliance with local-bill notice and environmental-commission review requirements.

The bill became law without the governor’s signature on June 20, 2025, effective September 1, 2025. House passage was 82–46, short of the two-thirds vote required for immediate effect; the Senate vote was 27–4. Sources: enrolled law and certified votes and official history.

What changed along the way?

The 2021 boundary law is the comparison baseline. Its retained survey descriptions match the 2025 text; HB5672 appends the six additional descriptions. The 65.3766-acre description is 81.7176 acres minus two exceptions of 5.336 and 11.005 acres. A later, separate description expressly includes the 5.336-acre parcel, so it must not be subtracted again from the six-description total. The 4.7233-acre addition also has its own affirmative description, rather than being counted within the older tract that excluded it. This is a statutory-text comparison, not an independent land survey or parcel-title determination.

All five indexed versions—introduced, House committee, House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled—have the same operative text. Both committees reported without amendments, and the amendment index lists none. There was no committee-substitute or floor-amendment policy change to distinguish from the final law.

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Official bill versions

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

The district, landowners and people relying on district elections or infrastructure arrangements could benefit from clearer statutory boundaries and confirmation of earlier actions. Validation can also strengthen the district’s position against challenges, subject to the express court-case exceptions. Property owners and users remain potentially responsible for district taxes, assessments, fees or debt under the applicable district laws and approvals; this bill does not calculate anyone’s bill or guarantee services.

The April 21 introduced fiscal note and May 21 engrossed fiscal note anticipate no significant state fiscal effect, assuming costs can be absorbed with existing resources. They cannot determine the district’s fiscal effect because the net effect of changing its boundaries is unknown, and anticipate no fiscal effect on other local governments. Neither note supplies a dollar estimate or a household tax calculation; this is not an appropriation.

Official sources

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