HB5672

Regular Session

Relating to the boundaries of, and validating certain acts and proceedings of, the Driftwood Conservation District.

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Effective:2025-09-01

Enforcing Agencies

Driftwood Conservation District Board of Directors • Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)

Compliance Analysis

Key implementation requirements and action items for compliance with this legislation

Implementation Timeline

Effective Date: September 1, 2025
Compliance Deadline: September 1, 2025
*Note:* Any real estate transaction closing on or after this date involving the newly included tracts must contain updated district disclosures.
Agency Rulemaking: None.
*Note:* The legislation is self-executing based on the metes and bounds descriptions provided in the bill.

Immediate Action Plan

1. Map the Boundaries: Immediately task surveyors with plotting the Section 1 field notes against your current inventory in the Driftwood area.
2. Update Title Plants: Ensure title databases reflect the new taxing jurisdiction effective September 1, 2025.
3. Audit Pending Closings: Review all open escrows scheduled to close after September 1. If the land is in the new boundary, issue the amended Water Code Notice to Purchaser immediately.
4. Verify Service Agreements: Confirm if the boundary shift triggers new water/wastewater service obligations under existing Utility Service Agreements.

Operational Changes Required

Contracts

Purchase and Sale Agreements (PSAs): You must audit all pending PSAs for land within the Freelove Woody Survey No. 23. If the property is newly included in the District, you must amend the contract to include the statutory Notice to Purchaser required by Texas Water Code § 49.452. Failure to provide this notice prior to closing grants the purchaser the right to terminate the contract.
Lending Agreements: Loan documents for development finance within the added territory must be updated to reflect the District as a taxing authority and potential lienholder.

Hiring/Training

Title Officers & Closing Agents: Staff handling Hays County transactions must be briefed on the new boundary lines. They must verify that tax certificates ordered after September 1, 2025, accurately reflect the District's jurisdiction.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

GIS & Mapping Updates: Surveying departments must overlay the field notes from Section 1 of the bill against current holdings immediately. Do not rely on physical fence lines; the statutory "calculated points" control.
Validation Filing: If your organization holds bonds issued by the District or contracts subject to validity challenges, file a copy of this statute with your permanent records. Section 2 validates past District acts, serving as a legal shield against procedural litigation.

Fees & Costs

Ad Valorem Taxes: Landowners of the newly added tracts will be subject to District taxation. While the 2025 tax liability is likely fixed as of January 1, 2025, budgets for the 2026 tax year must account for this new levy.
Service Fees: Developers must anticipate potential standby fees or tap fees associated with the District’s service area expansion.

Strategic Ambiguities & Considerations

Tax Proration for 2025: The law becomes effective September 1, 2025. Texas property taxes generally attach on January 1. There is ambiguity regarding whether the District can attempt to prorate taxes for the final four months of 2025 on newly added land.
*Guidance:* Prepare for the tax impact to fully hit in the 2026 tax year, but verify proration policies with the Hays County Tax Assessor-Collector immediately upon enactment.
Litigation Carve-Out: The "Validation" clause (Section 2) cures past errors but explicitly excludes matters involved in litigation that is pending on the effective date. If you are currently in a legal dispute with the District, this bill does not automatically moot your case, provided the suit is active on September 1, 2025.

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TopicsDriftwood Conservation District Special Districts & Authorities Special Districts & Authorities--groundwater Conserve Dist.Special Districts & Authorities--water & Utility Water Water--conservation

Official Analysis

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BILL ANALYSIS

H.B. 5672

By: Zwiener

Natural Resources

Committee Report (Unamended)

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

The bill author has informed the committee that in 2017 the 85th Texas Legislature created the Driftwood Conservation District, which is part of a golf course development in Driftwood in Hays County, that since its creation the district has conducted confirmation, director, and bond elections, and that the district is within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Dripping Springs. The bill author has also informed the committee that in 2021 the 87th Texas Legislature redefined the district's statutory boundaries to reflect the annexation of approximately 200 acres pursuant to three separate landowner annexation petitions over the course of several years and that the district has since approved the fourth petition in April 2023 for approximately 14 acres and the fifth petition in March 2025 for approximately 90 acres. The bill author has further informed the committee that the City of Dripping Springs has consented to all five annexations but that the district's statutory provisions do not currently reflect the district's boundaries as of the last two annexations. H.B. 5672 seeks to address this issue by changing the district's boundaries in the district's statutory provisions.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.

ANALYSIS

H.B. 5672 amends Chapter 632, Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, to change the boundaries of the Driftwood Conservation District.

H.B. 5672 establishes that the legislature validates and confirms all governmental acts, elections, and proceedings of the district that were taken before the bill's effective date. Such validation and confirmation expressly does not apply to any matter that on the bill's effective date:

·is involved in litigation if the litigation ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final court judgment; or

·has been held invalid by a final court judgment.

H.B. 5672 establishes that all applicable requirements relating to the following have been fulfilled and accomplished with respect to the bill:

·the legal notice of intention to introduce;

·governor action;

·Texas Commission on Environmental Quality recommendations; and

·the state constitution and laws and legislative rules and procedures.

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2025.

House Authors

Rep. Erin ZwienerDemocrat · Primary Author

Senate Sponsor

Sen. Donna CampbellRepublican · Primary Sponsor

Bill Text(with markup)

H.B. No. 5672

AN ACT

relating to the boundaries of, and validating certain acts and

proceedings of, the Driftwood Conservation District.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 632, Acts of the 85th

Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 2. The Driftwood Conservation District includes all

the territory contained in the following area:

FIELDNOTE DESCRIPTION of a 394.112 acre tract out of the

Freelove Woody Survey No. 23, Hays County, Texas, being a portion

of that 700.03 acre tract conveyed to John Richard Rutherford by

deed recorded in Volume 1214, Page 548 of the Deed Records of Hays

County, Texas; the said 394.112 acre tract is more particularly

described by metes and bounds as follows:

BEGINNING at a calculated point for the most westerly corner

of the said 700.03 acre tract, being on the southerly line of that

100 acre tract conveyed to Masa Scott Roberts by deed recorded in

Volume 301, Page 865 of the said Deed Records, and a point in the

northerly right-of-way line of State Highway FM 967 (80.00'

right-of-way), from which a TxDOT concrete highway monument found

bears N41 10'07"Q, 85.92 feet;

THENCE, leaving the northerly right-of-way line of State

Highway FM 967, with the common line between the said 700.03 acre

tract and the said 100 acre tract, for the following two (2)

courses:

1. N88 43'28"E at .25 feed pass a 1/2" iron rod found,

for a total distance of 2005.48 feet to a 60d nail found in a fence

corner post for the southeast corner of the said 100 acre tract;

2. N00 59'15"W, 515.50 feet to a 5/8" iron rod found

stamped "Kent McMillon, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341", for a northwest

corner of the said 700.03 acre tract, being on a westerly line of

the remainder of that 535.13 acre tract conveyed to Michael Giles

Rutherford, Jr., John Richard Rutherford and Sally Anne Rutherford

by deed recorded in Volume 1214, Page 531 of the said Deed Records,

from which a 1/2 " iron rod found for the northeast corner of the

said 100 acre tract bears N00 59'15"W, 523.55 feet;

THENCE, N89 02'23"E, leaving the easterly line of the said

100 acre tract, across the said 535.13 acre tract, with northerly

line of the said 700.03 acre tract, 5479.22 feet to a 1/2 " iron rod

set with plastic cap for the northeast corner of the herein

described tract, being in the westerly line of the remainder of that

652.60 acre tract also conveyed to Michael Giles Rutherford, Jr.,

John Richard Rutherford and Sally Anne Rutherford by deed recorded

in Volume 1214, Page 531 of the said Deed Records;

THENCE, leaving the said remainder of the 535. 13 acre tract

and the 652.60 acre tract, across the said 700.03 acre tract for the

following three (3) courses:

1) S00 15'40 E, 514.97 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

2) S89 02'23"W, 15.17 feet to a fence comer post found;

3) S00°27'04"E, 1260. 14 feet to a metal fence corner

post found for an ell corner in the southerly line of the said

700.03 acre tract, being on the remainder of that certain tract,

described as First Tract, conveyed to Michael Giles Rutherford by

deed recorded in Volume 197, Page 45 of the said Deed Records, from

which a 5/8" iron rod found with aluminum cap stamped "Kent

McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341" bears N87 l'36"E, 1675.22 feet;

THENCE, S0l°00'52"E, across the said Michael Giles Rutherford

First Tract, with an easterly line of the said 700.03 acre tract,

17.61 feet to a 5/8" iron rod found with aluminum cap stamped "Kent

McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341" for the most easterly,

southeast comer of the herein described tract, from which a fence

corner post found for the most southerly, southeast corner of the

aforesaid 700.03 acre tract, being an ell comer of the said Michael

Giles Rutherford tract and the northeast corner of that certain

26.25 acre tract conveyed to Denton E. Ragland, Patrice Ragland and

Marilyn Ragland by deed recorded in Volume 282, Page 373 of the said

Deed Records bears S0l°00'52"E, 2121.99 feet;

THENCE, leaving the remainder of the said Michael Giles

Rutherford tract, across the said 700.03 acre tract, for the

following twenty-three (23) courses:

1) N83°13'49"W, 111.37 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

2) N81°56'14"W, 349.24 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

3) N7l'0l'01"W, 274.19 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

4) N78°02'17"W, 468.3I feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

5) N82°55' 15"W, 267.33 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

6) S71°57'45"W, 177.28 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

7) N78'37'03"W, 375.19 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

8) S65°03'19"W, 84.41 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

9) S33°11'56"W, 124.67 feet to a1/2"iron rod set with

plastic cap;

10) S01°02'08'W 168.03 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

11) S27 03' 16"W, 206.14 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

12) S17°49'54"W, 197.44 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

13) S30°34'17"W, 272.18 feet to a to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

14) S12°51'33"W, 225.06 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

15) S08°30'37"E, 228.34 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

16) S17°32'26"W 215.74 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

17) S18°36'23"W, 192.00 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

18) S01°16'37"E, 177.11 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap:

19) S63°12'48"W, 153.98 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

20) S45°13'37"W, 150.25 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

21) S29°56'27"W, 113.65 to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap:

22) S60°22'29"W, 114.26 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

23) S26 35'43"W, 75.57 feet to a 5/8" iron rod found

with aluminum cap, stamped "Kent McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS

4341", on the southerly line of the said 700.03 acre tract, being on

the notherly right-of-way line of the aforesaid Sate Highway FM

967, and being 40.00 feet right of State Highway centerline station

587+49.3;

THENCE, with the common line between the said 700.03 acre

tract and the said right-of-way line of State Highway FM 967, for

the following two (2) courses:

1) N89 12'09"W, at 750.58 feet pass a TxDOT concrete

highway monument found, for a total distance of 1247.30 feet to a

calculated point for the point of curvature of a non-tangent curve

to the right, from which a TxDOT concrete highway monument found

bears S01 07'48"W, 0.38 feet, said calculated point being 40.00

feet right of State Highway centerline station 599+95.5;

2) With the said curve to the right having a central

angle of 48 00'30", a radius of 1105.92 feet, a chord distance of

899.79 feet (chord bears N65 10'23"W), for an arc distance of 926.66

feet to a calculated point for the point of tangency, from which a

TxDOT concrete highway monument found bears N81 52'12"E, 1.37 feet,

said calculated point being 40.00 feet right of State Highway

centerline station 609+55.5;

THENCE, N41 10'07"W, continuing with the common line between

the said 700.03 acre tract and the northerly right-of-way line of

State Highway FM967, at 1393.60 feet pass a TxDOT concrete monument

found 0.28 feet to the left, at 2244.39 feet pass a TxDOT concrete

highway monument found, for a total distance of 3675.62 feet to the

PLACE OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING within these metes and bounds

394.112 acres of land area.

TRACT II.

FIELDNOTE DESCRIPTION of a 128.166 acre tract out of the

Freelove Woody Survey No.23, Hays County, Texas, being a portion of

that 700.03 acre tract conveyed to John Richard Rutherford by deed

recorded in Volume 1214, page 548 of the Deed Records of Hays

County, Texas; the said 128.166 acre tract is more particularly

described by metes and bounds as follows:

BEGINNING at a fence corner post found for the most southerly

southeast corner of the said 700.03 acre tract, being the northeast

corner of that 26.25 acre tract conveyed to Denton Ragland, Jr.,

Patrice Ragland and Marilyn Ragland by deed recorded in Volume 282,

Page 372 of the said Deed Records and an ell corner of that certain

tract, described as first tract, conveyed to Michael Giles

Rutherford recorded in Volume 197, page 45 of the said Deed Records,

from which a fence corner post found in the common line between the

said 26.25 acre tract and that certain Michael Giles Rutherford

tract bears S00 42'40"E, 446.87 feet;

THENCE, N88 53'01'W, leaving the said Michael Giles

Rutherford tract, with the southerly line of the said 700.03 acre

tract, at 21.54 feet pass a 5/8" iron rod found, stamped "Kent

McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341", 0.56 feet to the left, at

719.81 feet pass the approximate northwest corner of the said 26.25

acre tract, being approximate northeast corner of the remainder of

that 53.50 acre tract conveyed to Minnie Rogers by deed recorded in

Volume 210, Page 210 of the said Deed Records, for a total distance

of 2711.59 feet to a 5/8" iron pipe found on a curve to the left in

the northerly right of way line of State Highway FM 967;

THENCE, with the common line between the said 700.03 acre

tract and the northerly right-of-way line of State Highway 967,

with the said curve to the left having a central angle of 09 18'06",

a radius of 1949.86 feet, a chord distance of 316.20 feet(chord

bears N84 31'41"W), for an arch distance of 316.55 feet to a 5/8"

iron rod found with aluminum cap stamped "Kent McMillan, Land

Surveyor, RPLS 4341" for the point of tangency and southwest corner

of the herein described tract, said point being 40.00 feet right of

State Highway RM 967 centerline station 587+49.3, from which a 5/8"

iron rod found with aluminum cap stamped "Kent McMillan, Land

Surveyor, RPLS 4341" in the common line between said 700.03 acre

tract and northerly right-of-way line of State Highway FM 967,

being 40.00 feet right of State Highway FM 967 centerline station

599+95.5, bears N89 12'09"W, 1247.30 feet;

THENCE, leaving the said northerly right-of-way line of State

Highway FM 967, across the said 700.03 acre tract, for the following

twenty-three (23) courses:

1. N26 35'43"E, 75.57 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap:

2. N60 22'29"E, 114.26 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap:

3. N29 56'27"E, 113.65 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap:

4. N45 13'37"E, 150.25 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap:

5. N63 12'48"E, 153.98 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

6. N01 16'37"W, 177.11 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

7. N18 36'23"E, 192.00 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

8. N17 32'26"E, 215.74 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

9. N08 30'37"W, 228.34 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

10. N12 51'33"E, 225.06 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

11. N30 34'17"E, 272.18 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

12. N17 49'54"E 197.44 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

13. N27 03'16"E, 206.14 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

14. N01 02'08"E, 168.03 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

15. N33 11'56"E, 124.67 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

16. N65 03'19"E, 84.41 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set with

plastic cap;

17. S78 37'03"E, 375.19 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

18. N71 57'45"E, 177.28 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

19. S82 55'15"E, 267.33 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

20. S78 02'17"E, 468.31 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

21. S71 01'01"E, 274.19 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

22. S81 56'14"E, 349.24 feet to a 1/2" iron rod set

with plastic cap;

23. S83 13'49"E, 111.37 feet to a 5/8" iron rod found

with aluminum cap stamped "Kent McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341"

on an easterly line of the said 700.03 acre tract, being a westerly

line created from the remainder of that certain Michael Giles

Rutherford tract, form which a metal gate post found for an ell

corner of the said 700.03 acre tract bears N01 00'52"W, 17.61 feet;

THENCE, S01 00'52"E, across the said Michael Giles Rutherford

tract, with an easterly line of the said 700.03 acre tract, at a

distance of 1885.44 feet to the left, at 2084.56 feet pass a 5/8"

iron rod found, stamped "Kent McMillan, Land Surveyor, RPLS 4341",

0.07 feet to the left, for a total distance of 2104.37 feet to the

PLACE OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING within these metes and bounds of

128.166 acres of land area.

TRACT III

FIELDNOTE DESCRIPTION OF A 0.1793 acre tract of the Freelove

Woody Survey No. 23, Abstract No.20, Hays County, Texas, being a

portion of that certain tract, described as First Tract, conveyed

to Michael Giles Rutherford (First Tract) by deed recorded in

Volume 197, Page 45 of the Deed Records of Hays County, Texas; the

said 0.1793 acre tract is more particularly described by metes and

bounds as follows:

BEGINNING at a cotton in spindle found on the easterly line of

that 522.25 acre tract conveyed to Michael Giles Rutherford by deed

recorded in Volume 3799, Page 263 of the Official Public Records of

Hays County, Texas, same being the southwest corner of that 177.762

acre tract described as Exhibit A-1, as conveyed to LSM Ranch, Ltd.

By deed recorded in Volume 1628, Page 206 of the said Deed Records

and the proposed southwest corner of Rim Rock, Phase One, Section

Five, subdivision;

THENCE, N87 51'36"E, leaving the easterly line of the said

522.25 acre tract, across the said First Tract, with the southerly

line of the said 177.762 acre tract and proposed Rim Rock, Phase

One, Section Five subdivision, for a distance of 99.82 feet to a

calculated point for the northeast corner of the herein described

tract, same being the most northerly northwest corner of Lot 34,

Block 'A', Rutherford West, Section 2, a subdivision recorded in

Book 14, pages 49 through 53 of the Plat Records of Hay County,

Texas, from which a 1/2"iron rod found with plastic cap marked

"Capital Surveying Company, Inc", bears N00 32'40"W, 0.13 feet;

THENCE, leaving the southerly line of the said 177.762 acre

tract and proposed Rim Rock, Phase One, Section Five, subdivision,

across the said First Tract, with the westerly and northerly lines

of said Lot 34, Block 'A", for the following two (2) courses:

1. S00 32'40"E, 81.34 feet to a 1/2"iron rod found with

plastic cap marked "Capital Surveying Company, Inc., found;

2. N88 52'48"W, 99.21 feet 1/2"iron rod found with

plastic cap marked "Capital Surveying Company, Inc., found for the

most westerly northwest corner of aforesaid Lot 34, Block 'A', same

being on the easterly line of the aforesaid 522.25 acre tract and

the southwest corner of the herein described tract;

THENCE, N01 00'52"W, leaving the northerly line of said Lot

34, Block 'A', and continuing across the said First Tract, easterly

line of the aforesaid 522.25 acre tract, at a distance of 58.07 feet

pass a 5/8" iron rod, with aluminum cap marked "Kent McMillan,

Surveyor, RPLS 4341", found and continuing for a total distance of

75.68 feel to the PLACE OF BEGINNING, CONTAINING within these metes

and bounds 0.1793 acres of land area.

The Bearing Basis for this description is the Texas State

Plane Coordinate System, South Central Zone, NAD 83 Datum, derived

from GPS Survey occupations.

37.0675 acres

FIELDNOTE DESCRIPTION of a tract or parcel of land containing

37.0675 acre situated in the Freelove Woody Survey No. 23, Abstract

No. 20, and the Fannie A. D. Darden Survey, both of Hays County,

Texas, being all of Driftwood Subdivision, Phase One, Section One,

as recorded in Book 18, Pages 236 through 240 of the Plat Records of

Hays County, Texas, the said 37.0675 acre tract is more

particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:

COMMENCING at a 1/2 inch iron rod, with a plastic cap marked

"Capital Surveying Company, Inc.", found on the common southerly

line of that 200 acre tract, described as Tract 4, conveyed to Masa

Scott Roberts by deed recorded in Volume 966, Page 677 of the

Official Public Records of Hays County, Texas, and northerly

right-of-way line of State Highway RM 1826 (80.00' right-of-way),

for the southwest corner of that 0.1166 acre right-of-way

dedication tract, as dedicated in said Driftwood Subdivision, Phase

One, Section One, from which a Txdot Type 1 monument found on the

common south line of the said 200 acre tract and northerly

right-of-way line of Rm 1826, bears N88°48'32"W, 863.33 feet;

THENCE, leaving the northerly right-of-way line of RM 1826,

with the westerly line of said 0.1166 acre right-of-way dedication

tract, across the said 200 acre tract, for the following two (2)

courses:

1) N01°11'28"E, a distance of 25.00 feet to a 1/2" iron rod,

with cap marked "Capital Surveying Company, Inc.", found for

corner;

2) N46°10'34"E, a distance of 14.14 feet to a 1/2 inch iron

rod, with plastic cap marked "Capital Surveying Company, Inc.",

found for the northwest corner of the said 0.1166 acre right-of-way

dedication tract, being the southwest corner of Lot 1, Block "F",

Driftwood Subdivision, Phase One, Section One, and the POINT OF

BEGINNING of the herein described tract;

THENCE, with the perimeter line of said Driftwood

Subdivision, Phase One, Section One, across the said 200 acre

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LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas

FISCAL NOTE, 89TH LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION


April 21, 2025

TO:	Honorable Cody Harris, Chair, House Committee on Natural Resources

FROM:	Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board

IN RE:	HB5672 by Zwiener (Relating to the boundaries of, and validating certain acts and proceedings of, the Driftwood Conservation District.), As Introduced

No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.

It is assumed that any costs associated with the bill could be absorbed using existing resources.

Local Government Impact

The fiscal implications to the district cannot be determined due to the net effect of altering the district boundaries being unknown. No fiscal implication to other units of local government is anticipated.

Source Agencies:

582 Commission on Environmental Quality

LBB Staff:

JMc, TUf, BC, CWi

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What does Texas HB5672 do?

HB5672 alters the jurisdictional boundaries of the Driftwood Conservation District in Hays County and validates prior administrative actions to cure potential procedural defects. This legislation strictly impacts real estate developers, title companies, and lenders dealing with specific tracts in the Freelove Woody Survey No. 23, requiring immediate updates to tax disclosures and title commitments to avoid contract voidability.

Who authored HB5672?

HB5672 was authored by Texas Representative Erin Zwiener during the Regular Session.

When was HB5672 signed into law?

HB5672 was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott on June 20, 2025.

Which agencies enforce HB5672?

HB5672 is enforced by Driftwood Conservation District Board of Directors and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

How urgent is compliance with HB5672?

The compliance urgency for HB5672 is rated as "low". Businesses and organizations should review the requirements and timeline to ensure timely compliance.

What is the cost impact of HB5672?

The cost impact of HB5672 is estimated as "low". This may vary based on industry and implementation requirements.

What topics does HB5672 address?

HB5672 addresses topics including driftwood conservation district, special districts & authorities, special districts & authorities--groundwater conserve dist., special districts & authorities--water & utility and water.

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