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Amend CSHB 3605 by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subchapter D, Chapter 17, Water Code, is amended by adding Section 17.1245 to read as follows:
Sec. 17.1245. EVALUATION. (a) In passing on an application for financial assistance from a retail public utility that provides potable water service to 3,300 or more connections, the board shall:
(1) evaluate for compliance with the board's best management practices the utility's water conservation plan required under Section 13.146; and
(2) issue a report to a utility detailing the results of the evaluation conducted under Subdivision (1).
(b) Not later than January 1 of each odd-numbered year, the board shall submit to the legislature a written summary of the results of evaluations conducted under Subsection (a)(1).
SECTION ____. Section 17.1245, Water Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an application for financial assistance submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. An application for financial assistance submitted before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.