---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the creation, powers, duties, and financing of the Wise Regional Water District; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees; creating a criminal offense."
description: "Relating to the creation, powers, duties, and financing of the Wise Regional Water District; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees; creating a criminal offense."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HB 3154"
citation: "Texas HB 3154 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Government--General (I0096)", "Special Districts & Authorities--Water & Utility (I0755)", "Utilities--Water & Sewer (I0002)", "WISE COUNTY (G0455)", "WISE REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT (D35YW)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckley", "Fairly", "Hopper", "Villalobos"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b108e8d-0e54-47bb-b011-4891a2ea9eb6"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB03100_HB03199/HB 3154.xml"
source_hash: "4f9a3750f8fbf9f784ffb94468e8f833027fb4d1732a7433b1ee6ec2200050ee"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-tx"]
---

# Texas HB 3154 (89R) — Relating to the creation, powers, duties, and financing of the Wise Regional Water District; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees; creating a criminal offense.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03154I.HTM)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/HB03154H.HTM)

## Votes

- other — **41–78** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckley — primary (person)
- Fairly — primary (person)
- Hopper — primary (person)
- Villalobos — primary (person)
- Bumgarner — cosponsor (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Frank — cosponsor (person)
- Geren — cosponsor (person)
- Hayes — cosponsor (person)
- Holt — cosponsor (person)
- Kerwin — cosponsor (person)
- Kitzman — cosponsor (person)
- Little — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Lozano — cosponsor (person)
- Luther — cosponsor (person)
- McLaughlin — cosponsor (person)
- Money — cosponsor (person)
- Morales, Eddie — cosponsor (person)
- Morgan — cosponsor (person)
- Pierson — cosponsor (person)
- Raymond — cosponsor (person)
- Schatzline — cosponsor (person)
- Shofner — cosponsor (person)
- Spiller — cosponsor (person)
- Swanson — cosponsor (person)
- Toth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-21** Filed `filing`
- **2025-02-24** Transmitted to the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** Referred to Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Recommendations filed with the Speaker `filing`
- **2025-04-09** Considered in public hearing
- **2025-04-09** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-04-09** Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
- **2025-04-09** Left pending in committee
- **2025-04-24** Considered in formal meeting
- **2025-04-24** Committee substitute considered in committee `substitution`
- **2025-04-24** Reported favorably as substituted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator `filing`
- **2025-04-30** Committee report distributed
- **2025-05-01** Committee report sent to Calendars
- **2025-05-10** Considered in Calendars
- **2025-05-12** Placed on General State Calendar
- **2025-05-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** Failed to pass to engrossment `failure`
- **2025-05-15** Record vote
- **2025-05-15** Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b108e8d-0e54-47bb-b011-4891a2ea9eb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).