---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the provision of water supply service by the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 140 to land located wholly or partly in the territory of another district."
description: "Relating to the provision of water supply service by the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 140 to land located wholly or partly in the territory of another district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/tx"
legislature: "Texas Legislature"
session: "89R"
identifier: "HB 5701"
citation: "Texas HB 5701 (89R)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MONTGOMERY COUNTY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 140 (DQ6BW)", "Special Districts & Authorities--Municipal Utility Districts (I0009)", "Special Districts & Authorities--Water & Utility (I0755)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell, Cecil"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-05-09"
last_action: "2025-05-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fda978a-659a-4902-bc71-671409ac635a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/89R/billhistory/house_bills/HB05700_HB05799/HB 5701.xml"
source_hash: "7e33d5121b5f118dea10fa54af5d1daf3d901d3d19eb960b7fc2979fe06baef4"
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 5701 (89R) — Relating to the provision of water supply service by the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 140 to land located wholly or partly in the territory of another district.

## 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/HB05701I.HTM)

## Sponsors

- Bell, Cecil — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-09** Filed `filing`
- **2025-05-09** Transmitted to the Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-10** Read first time `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-05-10** Referred to Land & Resource Management `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Recommendations filed with the Speaker `filing`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0fda978a-659a-4902-bc71-671409ac635a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Texas legislature records).