Bill Text: TX HB2762 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for and charges for service from public drinking water supply systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-04-04 - Left pending in committee [HB2762 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2762-Introduced.html
| 88R9228 ANG-D | ||
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2762 | |
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| relating to requirements for and charges for service from public | ||
| drinking water supply systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 341.0315, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission by rule | ||
| shall establish connection equivalency values for each meter size | ||
| used to serve a recreational vehicle park, as defined by Section | ||
| 13.087, Water Code, for use in determining the number of | ||
| connections served by a public drinking water supply system that | ||
| provides service through meters. The rules must establish that | ||
| eight recreational vehicle or cabin sites at a recreational vehicle | ||
| park, whether occupied or not, are equivalent to one residential | ||
| metered connection. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 13.152 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.152. BILLING FOR RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "recreational vehicle park" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 13.087. | ||
| (b) A retail public utility, other than a municipally owned | ||
| utility described by Section 13.087, providing water or sewer | ||
| service to a recreational vehicle park shall ensure that billing | ||
| for the service is based on actual water usage recorded by the | ||
| retail public utility. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
