Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 601	Senate Author:  Perry et al.
Effective:  6-18-21	House Sponsor:  Burrows

            Senate Bill 601 amends the Education Code to create the Texas Produced Water Consortium to bring together information resources to study the economics of and technology related to, and the environmental and public health considerations for, beneficial uses of fluid oil and gas waste. The consortium consists of the following:

·        Texas Tech University as the host university;

·        an agency advisory council, a stakeholder advisory council, and a technical and economic steering committee as those councils and that committee are provided by the bill; and

·        private entities.

The bill sets out the duties of the consortium and the host university, but makes implementation of a provision of the bill by the consortium mandatory only if a specific appropriation is made for that purpose.