Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 1842 creates the West Harris County Regional Water Authority. It authorizes the authority to develop, prepare, revise, adopt, implement, enforce, manage, or participate in a groundwater reduction plan and to require that such a plan be the exclusive plan that is binding and mandatory for all or part of the authority. The bill authorizes cooperation with other governmental entities, including the option of an interlocal contract with the Harris-Galveston Coastal Subsidence District to carry out the authority's purposes and contractually specified governmental functions and services.