Sunset Commission Meeting

The agenda and for the Sunset Commission meeting scheduled for December 11, 2024, are now available.

Texas Water Development Board

Agency History

Former Agencies

Previous Sunset reports on this agency

  • Next Review Date: 2034-2035 Review Cycle - 94th Legislative Session

  • Last Review Cycle: 2022-2023 Review Cycle - 88th Legislative Session

Sunset Documents for 2022-2023 Review Cycle, 88th Legislative Session

Legislative Documents

Final Results of Last Sunset Review

Continue
  • Amend the Texas Water Development Board’s (TWDB) next Sunset review date and continue the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas Advisory Committee to 2035.
Project Review
  • Require TWDB to develop, collect, and analyze performance metrics and establish goals for evaluating its project review process.
  • Authorize TWDB to implement a risk-based approach to project review.
  • Direct TWDB to develop a plan to prioritize improving its project review process to eliminate inefficiencies and inconsistencies. (Management action — nonstatutory)
  • Direct TWDB to work with the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) to update the agency’s General Appropriations Act performance measures to include elements of the project review process. (Management action — nonstatutory)
Outreach
  • Direct TWDB to collect and analyze information about its financial assistance applicants and outreach efforts to better inform and more effectively target agency activities; as part of this, direct TWDB to work with LBB to report money and projects awarded to rural and economically disadvantaged communities separately and not as a combined number. (Management action — nonstatutory)
  • Direct TWDB to develop a coordinated outreach plan to more efficiently promote agency programs, improve operations, and ensure its outreach efforts meet entities’ needs and expectations; additionally, direct TWDB to use funds from the Rural Water Assistance Fund to work with rural communities to help navigate TWDB’s funding application process. (Management action — nonstatutory)
Water Planning
  • Require regional water planning groups to include in regional water plans implementation updates about large projects, including status updates about expenditures, permit applications, and construction.
  • Authorize regional water planning groups, by statute, to use a drought worse than the drought of record as the baseline for planning purposes.
  • Direct TWDB to consult with the Office of the State Climatologist at Texas A&M University in the preparation of regional and state water plans. (Management action — nonstatutory)
Governance
  • Update the standard across-the-board requirement related to board member training.
  • Abolish TWDB’s reports on the Water Loan Assistance Program, Water Bond Insurance Program, and Storage Acquisition Fund, and continue all other reporting requirements.
  • Direct TWDB to update its policy regarding the separation of duties of board members from those of staff. (Management action — nonstatutory)
  • Direct TWDB to adopt a rule review plan. (Management action — nonstatutory)