Bill Text: TX HB3232 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of an enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service for a violation committed by a retail public utility being integrated into the regional service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3232 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3232-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3232 |
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relating to the suspension of an enforcement action against a | ||
regional water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service for a | ||
violation committed by a retail public utility being integrated | ||
into the regional service. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7.0026, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 7.0026. SUSPENSION OF ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST | ||
CERTAIN REGIONAL WATER, SEWER, OR SOLID WASTE SERVICES. (a) In | ||
this section, "retail public utility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 13.002. | ||
(b) If a water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid | ||
waste disposal service operated by or for a municipality or county | ||
is being integrated into a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater | ||
treatment, or solid waste disposal service, the commission may | ||
enter into a compliance agreement with the regional service under | ||
which the commission will not initiate an enforcement action | ||
against the regional service for existing or anticipated violations | ||
resulting from the operation by the regional service of the service | ||
being integrated. A compliance agreement under this section must | ||
include provisions necessary to bring the service being integrated | ||
into compliance. | ||
(c) If a water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment | ||
service operated by a retail public utility, other than a | ||
municipality or county, is being integrated into a regional water | ||
supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service administered by | ||
another entity, the commission may enter into a compliance | ||
agreement with the regional service under which the commission will | ||
not initiate an enforcement action against the regional service for | ||
existing or anticipated violations resulting from the operation by | ||
the regional service of the service being integrated. A compliance | ||
agreement under this section must include provisions necessary to | ||
bring the service being integrated into compliance. | ||
(d) This section does not prohibit the commission from | ||
initiating an enforcement action against a regional service that is | ||
a party to a compliance agreement if the regional service does not | ||
substantially comply with the agreement. | ||
SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules as necessary | ||
to implement Section 7.0026(c), Water Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3232 was passed by the House on April | ||
28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 8, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3232 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |