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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas directs environmental agency to study unused water rights and report potential cancellations
Last action · July 24, 2025: FiledSponsor: Ron Reynolds
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What This Bill Proposed
Texas requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to analyze unused water permits every five years, submit a report identifying cancellation candidates, and deliver the first report by March 31, 2027.
Determines which unused water permits are tracked for potential cancellation and whether their water volume could be redirected to the .
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.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Must conduct analyses of unused water permits at least every five years and submit regular reports to state boards.
Parks and Wildlife Department
Receives the periodic written reports detailing water rights subject to cancellation or eligible for the Texas Water Trust.
Legislative Budget Board
Receives the periodic written reports detailing water rights subject to cancellation.
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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- Jul 24, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
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