83R10736 JAM-D
 
  By: Burnam H.B. No. 3608
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the evaluation by Texas Water Development Board of
  applications for financial assistance for certain retail public
  utilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  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 2.  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.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.