SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Natural Resources
TIME & DATE:
5:30 PM or upon adjournment
Friday, May 22, 2009
PLACE:
E1.012 (Hearing Room)
CHAIR:
Senator Kip Averitt
HB 229
 
Pitts | et al.
SP:
Averitt
Relating to the construction, installation, alteration, extension, servicing, maintenance, or repair of on-site sewage disposal systems.
 
HB 1295
 
Aycock | et al.
SP:
Averitt
Relating to notification of an application related to a certificate of public convenience and necessity for water or sewer service.
 
HB 1420
 
Orr
SP:
Averitt
Relating to the regulation of the transportation of oil and gas drill cuttings; providing a criminal penalty.
 
HB 1664
 
King, Phil | et al.
SP:
Estes
Relating to an exemption for groundwater used for certain purposes from production fees assessed by the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.
 
HB 2053
 
Hilderbran
SP:
Fraser
Relating to a water rights permit issued to the Upper Guadalupe River Authority.
 
HB 2668
 
Ritter
SP:
Williams
Relating to the creation of the Smith Road Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 of Jefferson County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting levee and flood hazard mitigation powers; granting the power of eminent domain.
 
HB 2826
 
Naishtat
SP:
Shapleigh
Relating to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and retailer responsibility regarding recycling of computer equipment.
 
HB 3335
 
Callegari
SP:
Averitt
Relating to the powers of certain water districts.
 
HB 3526
 
Callegari
SP:
Averitt
Relating to the adoption of rules by the Texas Water Development Board regarding supplemental funding resulting from federal economic recovery legislation.
 
HB 3550
 
King, Tracy O.
SP:
Hegar
Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and related entities.
 
HB 3834
 
Hilderbran
SP:
Fraser
Relating to requiring the seller of certain real property to provide notice regarding the purchaser's duty to register water wells located or drilled on the property.
 
HB 3838
 
Hilderbran | et al.
SP:
Wentworth
Relating to powers and duties of the Office of Public Utility Counsel to represent residential and small commercial consumers in certain water or sewer utility service matters before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
 
HB 4218
 
Turner, Sylvester
SP:
Hegar
Relating to representation in a court proceeding involving a retail public utility providing water or sewer service.
 
HB 4438
 
Kolkhorst
SP:
Ogden
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to the Texas Forest Service.
 
HB 4735
 
Eiland
SP:
Jackson, Mike
Relating to the powers of the Coastal Water Authority; affecting the authority to issue bonds.
 
HB 4785
 
Weber
SP:
Jackson, Mike
Relating to the powers and financing of the Brazoria County Groundwater Conservation District.
 
HB 4808
 
Hunter | et al.
SP:
Hegar
Relating to the creation of the Calhoun County Groundwater Conservation District.
 
HJR 128
 
Ritter
SP:
Averitt
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the issuance of additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development Board.
 
HCR 119
 
Swinford
SP:
Seliger
Designating the Panhandle Region of Texas as an official Natural Renewable Resource Area.
 
HCR 120
 
Guillen | et al.
SP:
Uresti
Memorializing the United States Congress to make eradication of the fever tick in South Texas a priority and provide appropriate funding and resources.