TO:	Honorable Cody Harris, Chair, House Committee on Natural Resources
FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:	HB5659 by Dean (relating to the procedural requirements applicable to certain water-related transactions involving the Northeast Texas Municipal Water District.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted

The Legislative Budget Board, in cooperation with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Water Development Board, has determined that:

No Water Development Policy Impact Statement is required for this bill under the provisions of Texas Constitution, Article 16, Section 59(d) as this bill does not create a conservation and reclamation district.