SB1663 • 2025

Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.

Water

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Zaffirini
Last action: 2025-06-20
Official status: 06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date: 2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

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Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.

What This Bill Does

Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.

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Bill History

2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Signed by the Governor
2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online
Effective on 9/1/25
2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the House
2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online
Sent to the Governor
2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online
Signed in the Senate
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to 3rd reading
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#3615
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote. RV#3656
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
House passage reported
2025-05-27 Texas Legislature Online
Reported enrolled
2025-05-24 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on General State Calendar
2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in Calendars
2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Natural Resources
2025-04-17 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on local & uncontested calendar
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Laid before the Senate
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time & passed to engrossment
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Three day rule suspended
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-04-16 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendments
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
2025-04-07 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-11 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
2025-02-26 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-02-26 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 1663 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

S.B. No. 1663

AN ACT

relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater

contamination.

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

SECTION 1. Section 26.408(b), Water Code, is amended to

read as follows:

(b)
As soon as practicable but not
[
Not
] later than the 30th

day after the date the commission receives notice under Subsection

(a) or obtains independent knowledge of groundwater contamination,

the commission shall make every effort to give notice of the

contamination by first class mail
, e-mail, notice placed on the

door of a residence, or another effective delivery method
to
:

(1)
each owner of a private drinking water well that

may be affected by the contamination
;

(2)
[
and to
] each applicable groundwater conservation

district
; and

(3)

the residents of each residential address within

one mile of the site of the contamination
.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1663 passed the Senate on

April 16, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1663 passed the House on

May 27, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 111, Nays 29, two

present not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

Approved:

______________________________

Date

______________________________

Governor