By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 2124
         (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2025; March 24, 2025, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and
  Rural Affairs; April 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following
  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to publication of the Texas Groundwater Protection
  Committee's annual report.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 26.406(c), Water Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
         (c)  In conjunction with the commission, the committee shall
  publish not later than June [April] 1 of each year a joint
  groundwater monitoring and contamination report covering the
  activities and findings of the committee made during the previous
  calendar year. The report must:
               (1)  describe the current status of groundwater
  monitoring programs conducted by or required by each agency at
  regulated facilities or in connection with regulated activities;
               (2)  contain a description of each case of groundwater
  contamination documented during the previous calendar year and of
  each case of groundwater contamination documented during previous
  periods for which enforcement action was incomplete at the time of
  issuance of the preceding report; and
               (3)  indicate the status of enforcement action for each
  case of groundwater contamination that is included in the report.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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