TX Lege 2025
Our Water, Our Land, Our Democracy
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The slide show below is an overview of the legislative process and dynamics in the 89th Legislative Session. It also provides links to videos that explain how to use the Texas Legislature Online system to track bills.
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Please note this important "how to" page at Texas Legislature Online ("TLO"). at the end of which is how you can set up a "Profile" so you may submit testimony online (in the TX House only). There is a link in the meeting notice for you to use to submit written testimony, but you must set up a "Profile" first.
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Additional Information on Water and Water Contamination
LIV supports all legislation backed by SAWDF SEEN HERE.
On March 10, Andy Wier, Executive Director of Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund also shared these materials on water legislation. Here is a flier And, here is the SAWDF slide show. You can also watch of the virtual meeting with Andy.
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Congrats to SAWDF, Nancy McKee (Lee County affected landowner & Rep. Stan Gerdes on HB 29!
The "water loss" bill is now a Speaker priority!
Read this blog we posted on 4/4/25:
Texas is risking its water.
Shush, don't tell anyone.
The post includes these 4 graphs submitted in testimony by SAWDF HERE.
Water loss due to leaky pipes is HUGE. The prime offender is guess who? San Antonio Water System -- SAWS -- is wasting MORE water than they are taking for Vista Ridge out from underneath communities 142 miles from San Antonio. Scroll to 32 minutes and 16 seconds to watch the testimony. (That's Nancy McKee who raised this problem 3 years ago and kept pushing!) ====>
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Thanks to Ted Boriak of the Water Protection Association of Gonzales County for saying the unsayable. Vista Ridge should be cut off until they stop wasting all of the water they're pumping! This is not a provision in the bill.
​ Land Contamination by "Forever Chemicals"
As seen all over the news related to the Coleman's Heritage Ranch
in Johnson County -- click on WFAA Report here.
​Rep. Helen Kerwin's HB 1674, Sen. Kevin Sparks' companion bill in the Senate, SB 886. The legislation is seeking to slow down land contamination from biosolids contained in wastewater sludge-based fertilizers.
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In February 2025, the Johnson County Commissioners Court declared a disaster, asking for the Governor's support -- not yet arrived. See CBS Report here. and click on the WFAA report to the left, with rancher Tony Coleman.
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Counties have begun to pass their own resolutions:
See Johnson County here. Wise County here. See Ellis County here.
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This is LIV's proposed Resolution that you can take to your County government to ask them to draw up their own on Biosolids.
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Let's be clear, the Kerwin legislation seeks a short-term effort to stop the spread of this problem, as the industry and state must be compelled to seek a long term fix. There isn't one yet.​
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NOTE! The City of Ft. Worth recently filed suit against the Department of Defense and companies involved in alleged PFAS contamination! Ft. Worth serves. Johnson County. Also, read this article in Newsweek and make sure you're getting LIV email alerts.
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Background: Read "What Are Biosolids" for help to understand the terms. Other states and countries across the globe are dealing with this all-pervasive threat to our water supply.
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