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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas restricts groundwater district permits to prevent production from exceeding modeled available groundwater
Last action · August 7, 2025: FiledSponsor: Trent Ashby
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What This Bill Proposed
Relating to the volume of groundwater production authorized through the issuance of permits by a groundwater conservation district.
Property owners and agricultural producers applying for groundwater permits face stricter limitations based on state-calculated water availability limits.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Groundwater Conservation Districts
Groundwater conservation districts must restrict the volume of groundwater production authorized through new permits to comply with modeled available groundwater limits.
Groundwater Permit Applicants
Applicants face new statutory limits on the volume of groundwater production that districts are allowed to authorize through permits.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Aug 7, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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