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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB14 creates the Texas Advanced Nuclear Energy Office within the governor’s office and a dedicated fund for reimbursement grants supporting nuclear p…
Official caption: Relating to support for the development of the nuclear energy industry.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB29 requires large municipally owned drinking-water utilities to validate their water-loss audits and plan how to reduce losses.
Official caption: Relating to water losses reported by certain municipally owned utilities to the Texas Water Development Board; authorizing administrative penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB685 prohibits a municipality from establishing a water or sewer rate that applies only to entities qualifying for a sales-tax or property-tax exemp…
Official caption: Relating to rates established by municipalities for water or sewer service for certain entities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB1318 revises compensation and property-transfer rules in a specific process for giving a municipal or city-franchised utility the sole water or sew…
Official caption: Relating to a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide water or sewer service in an area incorporated or annexed by a municipality.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB1615 gathers and reorganizes the laws governing five existing special districts into named chapters of the Special District Local Laws Code.
Official caption: Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of certain local laws concerning water and wastewater special districts, including a conforming amendment.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2440 prohibits a state agency from banning or otherwise restricting a motor vehicle’s sale or use based on its energy source.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a state agency or the state's air quality state implementation plan to impose certain restrictions with respect to a motor vehicle, including a motor vehicle powered by an engine.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB2712 lets covered water and sewer utilities choose a historical, forecast, or mixed 12-month “test year” for a rate case.
Official caption: Relating to test years used for ratemaking purposes by certain water and sewer utilities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3229 requires covered renewable-energy recycling facilities to report their unrecycled inventory and provide financial backing for its recycling or…
Official caption: Relating to recycling of certain renewable energy components; authorizing an administrative penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3333 bars the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from issuing certain new permits for direct wastewater discharges into specified Devils Riv…
Official caption: Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3809 requires covered battery-storage leases to make the operator responsible for removing equipment, recycling or disposing of components, restori…
Official caption: Relating to the removal of battery energy storage facilities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB3824 creates a state framework for battery-facility fire standards, inspections, emergency plans and first-responder training.
Official caption: Relating to fire safety standards and emergency operations plans for the operation of battery energy storage facilities; providing administrative penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4370 expressly adds geothermal water conveyance systems and facilities to the authorized work of several types of local districts.
Official caption: Relating to the projects undertaken by a public improvement district, municipal management district, water control and improvement district, fresh water supply district, or municipal utility district.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB4630 narrows the reach of a Water Code subchapter governing artesian wells and removes several TCEQ-specific reporting provisions.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of artesian water wells by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5323 creates the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee to recommend better coordination of state programs that reduce wasted energy, improve effici…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Energy Waste Advisory Committee.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5651 creates Montgomery County Water Control and Improvement District No. 7 for a specifically described 480.79-acre area, with authority for water…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Water Control and Improvement District No. 7; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5655 creates Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 13 for a specifically described 911.580-acre area in the William Andrews a…
Official caption: Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 13; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5659 adds two procedural requirements for the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District before it enters a contract for an interbasin water transfer…
Official caption: Relating to the procedural requirements applicable to interbasin transfers of water involving the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
HB5662 gives the existing Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 12 express authority to design, acquire, construct, finance, im…
Official caption: Relating to the powers, duties, and authority to issue bonds of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 12 related to roads.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB7 expands Texas water-project financing and directs the Texas Water Development Board to coordinate water-transport infrastructure.
Official caption: Relating to the oversight and financing of certain water infrastructure matters under the jurisdiction of the Texas Water Development Board.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB231 sets equipment and leasing conditions for temporary emergency generators used by transmission and distribution utilities.
Official caption: Relating to temporary emergency electric energy facilities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB480 expressly allows local governments to make joint water-research or planning agreements with other governments.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a local government to enter into an interlocal contract with certain governmental entities to participate in water research or planning activities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB565 broadens when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality may make a compliance agreement for a service being combined into a regional system.
Official caption: Relating to a compliance agreement for the suspension of an enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid waste disposal service for certain violations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB740 changes how Texas handles failing water and sewer systems, infrastructure-related rate charges, and wholesale service disputes between cities.
Official caption: Relating to certain proceedings by the Public Utility Commission of Texas regarding water or sewer service.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB863 changes where Edwards Aquifer water may be used and separately lets state regulators authorize treated reclaimed water for underground storage …
Official caption: Relating to water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer and to the use of certain reclaimed water in an aquifer storage and recovery project.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB971 removes one competing version of “rural political subdivision” from the Texas Water Assistance Program’s definitions.
Official caption: Relating to the definition of a rural political subdivision for purposes of the Texas Water Assistance Program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1119 gives water-park owners and operators a limited protection against injury claims when they display the required warning—but preserves liabilit…
Official caption: Relating to liability of a water park entity for injuries arising from certain activities.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1145 gives the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) authority to issue permits for applying produced water to land when that water come…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue permits for the land application of water produced from certain mining and oil and gas extraction operations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1169 expands how public entities can work together through a public utility agency—a joint body formed by two or more public entities—to acquire, f…
Official caption: Relating to the provision of water or sewer service by public entities operating jointly or concurrently.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1194 creates the Central Texas Water Alliance, a regional authority for water and wastewater projects.
Official caption: Relating to creating the Central Texas Water Alliance; providing authority to issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain; providing authority to impose fees.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1252 limits municipal regulation of installing or inspecting qualifying residential backup-energy systems, while preserving municipally owned utili…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate the installation or inspection of a residential energy backup system.
