diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
index fc668f7f90ced..d7efaa4b25c64 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.0.txt
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Google BigQuery Enhancements
 
 - The :func:`read_gbq` method has gained the ``dialect`` argument to allow users to specify whether to use BigQuery's legacy SQL or BigQuery's standard SQL. See the :ref:`docs <io.bigquery_reader>` for more details (:issue:`13615`).
 - The :func:`~DataFrame.to_gbq` method now allows the DataFrame column order to differ from the destination table schema (:issue:`11359`).
-- The :func:`read_gbq` method now allows passing user defined functions 
+- The :func:`read_gbq` method now allows query configuration preferences
 
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