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  By: Ellis S.B. No. 1234
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the matters to be considered in developing the state
  water plan.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 16.051(a-1), Water Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (a-1)  The state water plan must include:
               (1)  an evaluation of the state's progress in meeting
  future water needs, including an evaluation of the extent to which
  water management strategies and projects implemented after the
  adoption of the preceding state water plan have affected that
  progress; [and]
               (2)  an analysis of the number of projects included in
  the preceding state water plan that received financial assistance
  from the board; and
               (3)  an assessment of the sustainability of groundwater
  production from the state's major and minor aquifers.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies to the state water plan required
  to be adopted by the Texas Water Development Board beginning with
  the 2017 state water plan.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.