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HB4153 • 2025

Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Fairly | Harris | Martinez
Last action
2025-05-01
Official status
05/01/2025 H Laid on the table subject to call
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

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. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  2. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Companion considered in lieu of. SB 2204

  3. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid on the table subject to call

  4. 2025-04-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  5. 2025-04-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  6. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  7. 2025-04-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  8. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  9. 2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)

  10. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  11. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  12. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  13. 2025-04-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  14. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  15. 2025-03-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Natural Resources

  16. 2025-03-10 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 4153 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

89R4095 ANG-F

By: Fairly

H.B. No. 4153

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract

management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board

programs.

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

SECTION 1. Section 15.008, Water Code, is amended to read as

follows:

Sec. 15.008. GRANT STANDARDS. The law regarding uniform

grant and contract management, Chapter 783, Government Code, does

not apply to a contract under Subchapter
B, C,
F, H, I, K, [
or
] P, or

R
[
to a contract relating to an economically distressed area or

nonborder colonia under Subchapter C
].

SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to

a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.

A contract entered into before the effective date of this Act is

governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date

of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.