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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • I am the Commissioner of Precinct 1 in Hidalgo County, and I also serve as a member of the Board of the
  • Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1.
  • I'm the General Manager of Down County Drainage District No. 1, and again, I'm also a resource witness
  • That's a different price per unit for each ratepayer.
  • Or it's going to be a self-contained unit, you know.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Groundwater Protection Committee's annual report and simply changes the delivery deadline from April 1
  • to June 1.
  • That's a different price per unit for each rate payer.
  • It's either going to be a municipal or it's going to be a self-contained unit, you know.
  • It's either going to be a municipal or it's going to be a self-contained unit, you know.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs heard several water-related bills, with testimony focused on drinking water quality, groundwater contamination notice, flood infrastructure funding, water rights conservation, and utility service areas. SB 1662 would limit TCEQ’s advance notice to public water systems to no more than 24 hours before testing after a consumer complaint, to reduce the chance of temporary treatment affecting results. SB 1663 would allow TCEQ to notify private well owners, groundwater conservation districts, and nearby residents by direct means about known groundwater contamination, rather than relying mainly on first-class mail and annual reporting. SB 2124 would move the deadline for publishing the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee’s annual report from April 1 to June 1. Witnesses on the first two bills described long-running water quality problems and delayed notice in their communities and supported the measures. No opposition was recorded, and each bill was left pending for a later vote. The committee also heard SB 1967, which would expand eligibility for Flood Infrastructure Fund financing to multipurpose projects that both reduce flooding and create water supply. Senator Hinojosa and Hidalgo County representatives described the Delta Reclamation Project as a shovel-ready example that would capture flood and drainage water, treat it, and produce new potable supply while also providing detention and flood mitigation. A Sierra Club witness also supported the bill, saying such projects could help manage floodwaters and reduce polluted discharges to bays and estuaries. The bill was left pending. A lengthy and divided discussion followed on SB 1413, which would expand the streamlined expedited release process for landowners seeking removal from a water or sewer CCN in additional counties. Senator Nichols said the bill was a property-rights measure aimed at legacy monopolies and bad actors who use CCNs to hold landowners hostage, while supporters described cases where developers could not get timely service, including fire flow, or were asked to fund infrastructure without reasonable recoupment. Opponents from rural water corporations and utility associations argued the bill would undermine investment in water infrastructure, strand debt, and weaken the return on planned expansion. PUC and TCEQ resource witnesses explained that compensation is handled case by case through appraisal and can include stranded costs, planning, design, construction, and some legal fees, but members noted the statute is unclear and discussed possible committee substitute language. Public testimony was closed with the bill left pending. Later, SB 1624 would allow the Texas Water Trust within the Texas Water Bank to hold donated water rights for conservation purposes and protect them from use-it-or-lose-it cancellation, and SB 863 would address Edwards Aquifer utilities that straddle the aquifer boundary by allowing them to continue using Edwards water within their certificated areas under specified conditions. Both bills were laid out, received no public opposition in the hearing, and were left pending.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Tourism Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill, Senate Bill 287, changes the license renewal date from January 1 to October 1.
  • changes the license renewal date<00:10:27.680> from<00:10:27.920> January<00:10:28.480> 1<
  • /c><00:10:28.880> to<00:10:29.120> October<00:10:29.680> 1.
  • <00:10:30.800> And date from January 1 to October 1.
  • And date from January 1 to October 1.
Bills: SB266, SB287, SB266, SB287
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Conservation Jan 31st, 2026 at 09:07 am

Senate Conservation

Transcript Highlights:
  • We will call for a vote at 1:30, and they intend to start the floor at 2 p.m.
  • All fee adjustments must follow the rulemaking process as authorized by 76-1-2. ...and must not exceed
Bills: SB47, SB110, SB122, SB143, SB168
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PSM-HWN Informational Briefing 04-13-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It needed to be tied to crisis training, to mobile crisis units, crisis centers.
  • It needed to be tied to crisis training, to mobile crisis units, crisis centers.
  • It needed to be tied to crisis training, to mobile crisis units, crisis centers.
  • units, crisis centers. units, crisis centers.
  • One of the the restrictive housing unit.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill has been approved in multiple states in the United States.
  • These treatments would be investigational treatments that are currently being used in the United States
  • Suffering patients in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Germany have been afforded this process for years
  • This time, Oklahoma and the United States offer potentially life-saving options.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Materially deviates from the purpose stated at the time the voters of the taxing unit adopted the tax
  • This act takes effect September 1, 2018.
  • For the taxing unit to receive a refund, so let's read this.
  • It's taxable if the taxing unit is materially deviated from the purpose.
  • A grant of 80% means that it will always be a Prop 1 grant.