Tex. Agric. Code § 203.154 · Subchapter E. COST SHARING FOR WATER SUPPLY ENHANCEMENT
LIMIT ON COST-SHARING PARTICIPATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Not more than 70 percent of the total cost of a single cost-sharing contract may be made available as the state's share in cost sharing.
(b) A person is not eligible to participate in or to receive money from the state water supply enhancement program if the person is simultaneously receiving any cost-share money for brush control on the same acreage from a federal government program.
(c) The board may grant an exception to Subsection (b) if the board finds that joint participation of the state water supply enhancement program and any federal brush control program will:
(1) enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the water supply enhancement program;
(2) lessen the state's financial commitment to the person receiving money from the water supply enhancement program through a cost-sharing contract; and
(3) not exceed 80 percent of the total cost of the cost-sharing contract.
(d) A political subdivision of this state is eligible for cost sharing under the water supply enhancement program, provided that the state's share may not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of a single cost-sharing contract.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 100 percent of the total cost of a single cost-sharing contract on public lands may be made available as the state's share in cost sharing.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 655, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 26, 1985. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1386, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 200, Sec. 13(l), eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 983, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 61 (H.B. 1808), Sec. 23, eff. September 1, 2011.
Source of truth
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.203.htm
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