By: Kitzman (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 4630          (In the Senate - Received from the House May 19, 2025;   May 19, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Water,   Agriculture and Rural Affairs; May 23, 2025, reported favorably by   the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 23, 2025, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the regulation of artesian water wells by the Texas   Commission on Environmental Quality.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Sections 7.142(a) and (b), Water Code, are   amended to read as follows:          (a)  A person commits an offense if the person violates:                (1)  Section 11.081;                (2)  Section 11.083;                (3)  Section 11.084;                (4)  Section 11.087;                (5)  Section 11.088;                (6)  Section 11.089;                (7)  Section 11.090;                (8)  Section 11.091;                (9)  Section 11.092;                (10)  Section 11.093;                (11)  Section 11.094;                (12)  Section 11.096; or                (13)  [Section 11.203; or                [(14)]  Section 11.205.          (b)  An offense under Subsection (a)(9), (a)(10), or (a)(13)   [(a)(14)] is punishable under Section 7.187(a)(1)(A) or (2)(B)   [Section 7.187(1)(A) or Section 7.187(2)(B)] or both.          SECTION 2.  Subchapter F, Chapter 11, Water Code, is amended   by adding Section 11.2011 to read as follows:          Sec. 11.2011.  APPLICABILITY. This subchapter, other than   Sections 11.202(c) and 11.206, applies only to an artesian well   drilled outside the boundaries of a groundwater conservation   district, subsidence district, or other conservation and   reclamation district with the authority to regulate the drilling,   spacing, or production of water wells.          SECTION 3.  The following provisions of the Water Code are   repealed:                (1)  Sections 11.202(d) and (e);                (2)  Section 11.203;                (3)  Section 11.204; and                (4)  Section 11.207.          SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *