By: Seliger S.B. No. 272

(In the Senate - Filed January 28, 2013; February 5, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; April 2, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 2, 2013, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 272 By: Seliger

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to water well recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including the production and use of groundwater.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 36.111, Water Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) The district shall keep and may require that records be kept and reports be made of the drilling, equipping, and completing of water wells and of the production and use of groundwater and shall annually provide those records and reports to the Texas Water Development Board.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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