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HB4532   Passed the House But Died in Senate with No Public Hearing
Referred to House Natural Resources Committee, chaired by a Democrat
Referred to Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, chaired by a Republican
Caption: Relating to the consideration of modeled sustained groundwater pumping in the adoption of desired future conditions in groundwater conservation districts.
Bipartisan Bill, authored by Kacal; Lalani; Price
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Sponsors:
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View at Texas Legislature Online

Thu 3/9/2023


(H) Filed
(H) Kyle Kacal signed onto the bill as Author
 

Wed 3/22/2023


(H) Referred to the House Natural Resources Committee, chaired by a Democrat
 

Tue 3/28/2023


(H) Considered in public hearing
(H) House Natural Resources Committee met and decided to leave this bill pending without objection.
 

Thu 3/30/2023


(H) Four Price signed onto the bill as Joint Author
(H) Suleman Lalani signed onto the bill as Joint Author
 

Tue 4/4/2023


(H) Considered in public hearing
(H) House Natural Resources Committee met and voted for passage. Ayes (King, Tracy O.; Thompson, Ed; Kacal; Lalani; Price; Rogers) Absents (Gamez; Kitzman; Metcalf; Ramos; Zwiener)
 

Fri 4/28/2023


(H) Record Vote No. 681 (Considered on second reading on the previous legislative day on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar were laid before the house, read third time, and passed.)


This is a Local and Consent Bill

RV#681: Yeas 134 (R 72, D 62) - Nays 10 (R 10, D 0)
HB4532 was "bundled" with many other bills and passed.
View in House Legislative Journal

Yea - Allen; Allison; Anchía; Anderson; Ashby; Bailes; Bell, C.; Bell, K.; Bernal; Bhojani; Bonnen; Bryant; Buckley; Bucy; Bumgarner; Burns; Burrows; Button; Cain; Campos; Canales; Capriglione; Clardy; Cole; Collier; Cook; Cortez; Craddick; Cunningham; Darby; Davis; Dean; DeAyala; Dorazio; Dutton; Flores; Frank; Frazier; Gamez; Garcia; Gates; Gerdes; Gervin-Hawkins; Goldman; González, J.; González, M.; Goodwin; Guerra; Guillen; Harless; Harris, C. E.; Hayes; Hefner; Hernandez; Herrero; Hinojosa; Holland; Howard; Hull; Hunter; Jetton; Johnson, A.; Johnson, J. D.; Johnson, J. E.; Jones, J.; Jones, V.; Kacal; King, K.; King, T.; Kitzman; Klick; Kuempel; Lalani; Lambert; Landgraf; Leach; Leo-Wilson; Longoria; Lopez, J.; Lopez, R.; Lozano; Lujan; Manuel; Martinez; Martinez Fischer; Metcalf; Meyer; Meza; Moody; Morales Shaw; Morales, C.; Morales, E.; Morrison; Muñoz; Murr; Neave Criado; Noble; Oliverson; Ordaz; Orr; Ortega; Paul; Perez; Plesa; Price; Ramos; Raney; Raymond; Reynolds; Rogers; Romero; Rose; Rosenthal; Schaefer; Schofield; Shaheen; Sherman; Shine; Smithee; Spiller; Stucky; Swanson; Talarico; Tepper; Thompson, S.; Toth; Troxclair; Turner; VanDeaver; Vasut; Vo; Walle; Wu; Zwiener

Registered No - ; Harris, C. J.; Harrison; Isaac; Patterson; Schatzline; Slaton; Slawson; Smith; Thimesch; Tinderholt

(Registering "No" makes no change on the passage of this bill.)

Please note: the following statements by legislators do not affect the vote count that was recorded.

Bowers: "When Record No. 681 was taken, I was in the house but away from my desk. I would have voted yes." (view other statements of vote for this Rep)

Thierry: "When Record No. 681 was taken, my vote failed to register. I would have voted yes." (view other statements of vote for this Rep)


 

Tue 5/2/2023


(S) Referred to the Senate Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, chaired by a Republican


Lobbying Against/For/On This Bill

Against

(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Frazier, Kyle for Texas Association of Groundwater Owners and Producers
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Gibson, David for Texas Corn Producers Association
 

For

(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Embrey, Ty for Middle Trinity GCD, Clearwater UWCD, Middle Pecos GCD, Panola County GCD
(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Gaines, Jimmy for Texas Landowners Council
(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Golemon, Kennan for self
(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Mazur, Jeremy for Texas 2036
(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Puig - Williams, Vanessa for EDF Renewables
(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Rogers, Linda Kaye for self
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Bruno, Marisa for Hill country alliance
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Camino, Marie for Nature Conservancy Texas Chapter
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Clifford, Mike for Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Dies, Martin for self (with Orange County Drainage District)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Ellis, Gregory for Clients of the Firm
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Fowler, Perry for Texas Water Infrastructure Network (TXWIN)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as French, Larry for Texas Public Policy Foundation
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Goshen, Danielle for National Wildlife Federation
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Martinsson, Leah for Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as McKee, Nancy for self
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Metzger, Luke for self (with Environment Texas)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Nunns, Randy for self (with Devils River Conservancy)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Olson, Lori for self (with Texas Land Trust Council)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Ortiz, Alex for Sierra Club
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Rubinstein, Carlos for self (with Belding Farms and Cockrell Investment)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Russell, Ruth for self (with FRC,LrWA,TWA, TREAD)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Sansom, Andrew for self (with Belding Farms)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Sansom, Andrews for self (with Belding Farms)
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Sledge, Shauna Fitzsimmons for Upper Trinity GCD, Prairielands GCD, North Texas GCD
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Wier, Andrew for self (with Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund (SAWDF))
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Wier, Mary for self
 

On

(Tue 3/28/2023) Testifying before House Natural Resources as Mace, Robert for Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
(Tue 3/28/2023) Registering before House Natural Resources as Dupnik, John for Texas water development board



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