The big news for the past week: the House has filed House Bill 1, the general appropriations bill. You’ll want to read this if you are interested in funding for TPWD, TCEQ, the GLO, and other environment-related programs. Cyrus Reed, Conservation Director of the Sierra Club’s Lone Star Chapter, puts it this way: “The fate of environment, water, and parks…
The big news for the week: the House has filed House Bill 1, the general appropriations bill. You’ll want to read this if you are interested in funding for TPWD, TCEQ, the GLO, and other environment-related programs. Other legislation proposed relates to motor buses, Cenozoic Era reservoirs, motor vehicle sales tax and registration fees, cemeteries, eminent domain, metal recycling, storage…
This week has seen several bills related to water: greywater, rainwater, groundwater, water rights, water basin transfers, water impoundment, water rights… The allocation of funds from various taxes–notably sporting goods and motor vehicles–has cropped up again this week. Other bills relate to the name of the Tx Railroad Commission (How ’bout TX Energy Resources Commission?), traffic lights, motocycles, fourwheelers, SEPs, the TCEQ, alternative fuel, agritourism, metal recycling, hydraulic fracturing, development, and United Nations Agenda 21. Also, the House has finally assigned its members to committees and has begun referring bills to those committees.