Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to privately owned lakes
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 8, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 12, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary This bill changes how the state defines a privately owned lake. To qualify, all the land under and around the water must be owned by the same person or group. Lakes that connect to public waters or require state approval for dams and embankments would no longer be considered privately owned.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the definition of a privately owned lake. The bill defines a privately owned lake as a body of water for which all land under and adjacent to the body of water is owned by an individual or group of joint owners. Current law lists the possible owners as an individual, a group, or a nonprofit organization. The bill also narrows the definition of a privately owned lake to not include a body of water that requires approval for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam, embankment, spillway, or appurtenant works from the department of natural resources or the natural resource commission (commission), or a body of water that is fed by, connects with, or discharges into public waters. Under Code chapter 462A, a privately owned lake is not a water of this state under the control of the commission.
House subcommittee
Named February 12, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.
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