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HB1523 • 2025

Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

Water
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Gerdes
Last action
2025-05-28
Official status
05/28/2025 S Removed from local & uncontested calendar
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Co-sponsor authorized

  2. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  3. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  4. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Rules suspended-Regular order of business

  5. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  6. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  7. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment(s) offered

  8. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Amendment fails of adoption

  9. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  10. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to 3rd reading

  11. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  12. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Removed from local & uncontested calendar

  13. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  14. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  15. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  16. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  17. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  18. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  19. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  20. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  21. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  22. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

  23. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  24. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  25. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  26. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2291

  27. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  28. 2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  29. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  30. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Amended. 1-Gerdes

  31. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment as amended

  32. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2225

  33. 2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  34. 2025-05-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  35. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  36. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  37. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  38. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  39. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in formal meeting

  40. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  41. 2025-04-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  42. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  43. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  44. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  45. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  46. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  47. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  48. 2025-03-12 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Natural Resources

  49. 2024-12-05 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 1523 - Senate Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Gerdes (Senate Sponsor - Schwertner)

H.B. No. 1523

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 14, 2025;

May 15, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,

Agriculture and Rural Affairs; May 23, 2025, reported adversely,

with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8,

Nays 0; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)
Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1523

By: Hancock

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to a temporary prohibition on the authorization by the

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the use of a Class V

injection well for certain aquifer storage and recovery projects.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 27, Water Code, is amended

by adding Section 27.1535 to read as follows:

Sec.

27.1535.

TEMPORARY PROHIBITION ON AUTHORIZATIONS OF

USE OF CERTAIN CLASS V INJECTION WELLS. (a) This section applies

only to a Class V injection well that is located in any portion of

the territory of a groundwater conservation district that has

adopted a resolution finding that Class V injection wells pose

environmental risks to aquifers located in the territory of the

district.

(b)

The commission may not authorize the use of a Class V

injection well for an aquifer storage and recovery project operated

by a municipally owned utility that primarily provides water to a

municipality that:

(1) has a population of 750,000 or more; and

(2)

is located in a county adjacent to a county in

which a groundwater conservation district described by Subsection

(a) is wholly or partly located.

(c) This section expires December 31, 2027.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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