Bill Text: TX HB1226 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the designation of a local governmental entity as an authorized agent of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to regulate the use of on-site sewage disposal systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-03 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB1226 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1226-Introduced.html
  84R5192 JRR-F
 
  By: Lucio III H.B. No. 1226
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the designation of a local governmental entity as an
  authorized agent of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  to regulate the use of on-site sewage disposal systems.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 366.035, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 366.035.  MANDATORY APPLICATION FOR AND MAINTENANCE OF
  DESIGNATION. A local governmental entity that applies to the Texas
  Water Development Board for financial assistance under a program
  for economically distressed areas must take all actions necessary
  to receive and maintain a designation as an authorized agent of the
  commission if:
               (1)  the financial assistance is for a project related
  to on-site sewage disposal systems; and
               (2)  the local governmental entity is not located in
  the jurisdiction of an authorized agent.
         SECTION 2.  Section 366.036(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  If the commission designates a local governmental
  entity as its authorized agent and if the entity intends to apply to
  the Texas Water Development Board for financial assistance under a
  program for economically distressed areas and the financial
  assistance is for a project related to on-site sewage disposal
  systems, the commissioners court of the county in which the entity
  is located shall prepare a map of the county area outside the limits
  of municipalities. The entity shall give to the commissioners
  court a written notice of the entity's intention to apply for the
  assistance. The map must show the parts of the area in which the
  different types of on-site sewage disposal systems may be
  appropriately located and the parts in which the different types of
  systems may not be appropriately located.
         SECTION 3.  Sections 366.035 and 366.036, Health and Safety
  Code, as amended by this Act, apply only to an application for
  financial assistance submitted on or after the effective date of
  this Act. An application for financial assistance submitted before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
  the date the application was submitted, and the former law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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