SB1606 - Relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance from the safe drinking water revolving fund to certain political subdivisions that provide raw water to another political subdivision.

  89R9948 CMO-F     By: Hinojosa of Nueces S.B. No. 1606       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the authority of the Texas Water Development Board to   provide financial assistance from the safe drinking water revolving   fund to certain political subdivisions that provide raw water to   another political subdivision.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 15.6041, Water Code, is amended by   adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:           (a-1)     For the purposes of Subsection (a)(1), the board may   provide financial assistance to a political subdivision that:                 (1)     is located wholly or partly in a county that   borders the Gulf of Mexico and the United Mexican States; and                 (2)     provides raw water to another political   subdivision for the purposes of treating the water and supplying   safe drinking water.            SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.