Bill Text: TX HB137 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to reports by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about dams that have certain hazard classifications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB137-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to reports by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about dams that have certain hazard classifications.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB137 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB137-Engrossed.html
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By: Hinojosa, Metcalf, Phelan, Cyrier | H.B. No. 137 |
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relating to reports by the Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
Quality about dams that have certain hazard classifications. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 12.052, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsections (e-3), (e-4), and (e-5) to read as follows: | ||
(e-3) For purposes of this subsection, the emergency | ||
management director for a municipality or county is the person | ||
designated that political subdivision's emergency management | ||
director by Section 418.1015, Government Code. The commission | ||
shall provide a report of a dam that has a hazard classification of | ||
high or significant to: | ||
(1) the emergency management director, or the | ||
emergency management director's designee, for the municipality or | ||
county in which the dam is located; and | ||
(2) the executive director or equivalent position of | ||
each council of government or local or regional development council | ||
for the area in which the dam is located. | ||
(e-4) The commission shall make a report as described by | ||
Subsection (e-3) not later than the 30th day after the date of the | ||
designation of a dam as a high or significant hazard | ||
classification. The report must include the hazard classification | ||
and condition status for each dam that has had a change in hazard | ||
classification located in the political subdivision. | ||
(e-5) The commission shall provide a biannual report | ||
including condition status and other information on each dam with a | ||
hazard classification of high or significant to the emergency | ||
management director, or the emergency management director's | ||
designee, of each municipality and county and the executive | ||
director or equivalent position of each council of government or | ||
local or regional development council in which a dam included in the | ||
report is located. | ||
SECTION 2. For each dam that, as of the effective date of | ||
this Act, the executive director of the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality maintains a classification of high or | ||
significant hazard, the commission shall provide a report regarding | ||
the hazard classification and condition status of the dam to the | ||
emergency management director, or the emergency management | ||
director's designee, of each municipality and county and the | ||
executive director or equivalent position of each council of | ||
government or local or regional development council in which the | ||
dam is located as provided by Section 12.052(e-3), Water Code, as | ||
added by this Act. Each report must be provided as soon as | ||
practicable and not later than March 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |