By: Creighton  S.B. No. 2332
         (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2019; March 21, 2019, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Water & Rural Affairs;
  April 24, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 24, 2019,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2332 By:  Creighton
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to reporting to the legislature by certain river
  authorities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Title 5, Water Code, is amended by designating
  Chapter 152 as Subtitle A and adding a subtitle heading to read as
  follows:
  SUBTITLE A. RIVER AUTHORITIES
         SECTION 2.  Subtitle A, Title 5, Water Code, as added by this
  Act, is amended by adding Chapter 150 to read as follows:
  CHAPTER 150. PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO RIVER AUTHORITIES
         Sec. 150.0101.  DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
               (1)  "Committee" means the standing committee of the
  senate with jurisdiction over water resources.
               (2)  "River authority" means the San Antonio River
  Authority or a district:
                     (A)  created by the legislature under the
  authority of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, as a
  regional water management entity to provide water development and
  planning services and other services to a river basin or portion of
  a river basin;
                     (B)  containing one or more counties within its
  boundaries; and
                     (C)  governed by a board of directors appointed or
  designated wholly or partly by the governor.
         Sec. 150.0102.  REPORT. (a) In November of the sixth year
  after the year in which the Sunset Advisory Commission completed a
  review of a river authority, the river authority shall deliver a
  report to the committee that explains changes to the river
  authority's rules made since the review by the Sunset Advisory
  Commission and the consequences of those changes.
         (b)  The committee may compel testimony by a representative
  of the river authority regarding the subject of the report in the
  same way the committee may compel testimony from a representative
  of a state agency.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
 
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