BILL · 1995–96 SESSION
SB 5593: Water rights permit backlog
Implementing provisions to reduce the water rights permit backlog.
Summary
- Provides for a one-year increase in the exempt well classification to eliminate almost two-thirds of the backlog of water rights applications. Authorizes provisional permits to be valid for a five-year period.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 27, 1995
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Harold Hochstatter (R-13)
- Introduced
- January 27, 1995 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 8, 1996
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Harold Hochstatter (R-13)
7 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 6 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
The Legislature's online data doesn't include step-by-step history for sessions before 2001. Its final status is shown above, and the official bill page may have more.
SB 5593 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 5593 (2025–26) School levies & local effort
- SB 5593 (2023–24) Student data transfer
- SB 5593 (2021–22) Urban growth area boundaries
- SB 5593 (2019–20) Running start fee waivers
- SB 5593 (2017–18) Postsurgical care
- SB 5593 (2015–16) Healthcare/inmates, detained
- SB 5593 (2013–14) Property tx exemption claims
- SB 5593 (2011–12) Tanning facilities