BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 3166 |
By: Lucio III |
Natural Resources |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties contend that groundwater conservation districts should consider additional information before voting on proposed desired future conditions of the relevant aquifers within the management area. C.S.H.B. 3166 seeks to address this issue by providing for the consideration of modeled sustainable groundwater pumping.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 3166 amends the Water Code to include modeled sustainable groundwater pumping as provided by the executive administrator of the Texas Water Development Board for each aquifer in the management area among the hydrological conditions groundwater conservation districts are required to consider before voting on the proposed desired future conditions of the relevant aquifers within the management area. The bill prohibits the executive administrator from calculating the modeled sustainable groundwater pumping for an aquifer located in a management area that wholly or partly overlies an aquifer with a recharge rate such that an owner of land that overlies the aquifer qualifies under federal tax law for a cost depletion deduction for the groundwater withdrawn from the aquifer for irrigation purposes. The bill defines "modeled sustainable groundwater pumping" as the maximum amount of groundwater that the executive administrator determines may be produced in perpetuity from an aquifer on an annual basis using the best available science.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 3166 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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