Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 1094 requires the Texas Water Development Board to select members of a Water Conservation Implementation Task Force to represent specified entities and interest groups. The task force has the duty to review, evaluate, and recommend optimum levels of water use efficiency and conservation for the state. The bill directs the task force to examine best management practices associated with major types of water uses, evaluate the implementation of conservation strategies in regional and state water plans, consider the need for a statewide public awareness program, study the proper role, if any, for state funding of incentive programs, evaluate the appropriate state oversight and support of legislative conservation initiatives, and advise the Texas Water Development Board and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on data management methodologies and per capita water use targets and goals. The task force must develop a best management practices guide for use by political subdivisions and regional water planning groups and must report to the legislature not later than November 1, 2004. The task force is abolished on January 1, 2005.