Bill Text: TX HB3372 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to rainwater harvesting systems that are connected to public water supply systems.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB3372 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3372-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3372 |
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relating to rainwater harvesting systems that are connected to | ||
public water supply systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 341.042, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1), | ||
(b-2), (b-3), and (b-4) to read as follows: | ||
(b) The commission by rule shall provide that if a structure | ||
is connected to a public water supply system and has a rainwater | ||
harvesting system for indoor use,[ |
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(b-1) The commission shall work with the department to | ||
develop rules regarding the installation and maintenance of | ||
rainwater harvesting systems that are used for indoor potable | ||
purposes and connected to a public water supply system. The rules | ||
must contain criteria that are sufficient to ensure that: | ||
(1) safe sanitary drinking water standards are met; | ||
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(2) harvested rainwater does not come into | ||
communication with a public water supply system's drinking water at | ||
a location off of the property on which the rainwater harvesting | ||
system is located. | ||
(b-2) A person who installs and maintains rainwater | ||
harvesting systems that are connected to a public water supply | ||
system and are used for potable purposes must be licensed by the | ||
Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners as a master plumber or | ||
journeyman plumber and hold an endorsement issued by the board as a | ||
water supply protection specialist. | ||
(b-3) A person who intends to connect a rainwater harvesting | ||
system to a public water supply system for use for potable purposes | ||
must give written notice of that intention to the municipality in | ||
which the rainwater harvesting system is located or the owner or | ||
operator of the public water supply system before connecting the | ||
rainwater harvesting system to the public water supply system. | ||
(b-4) A municipally owned water or wastewater utility, a | ||
municipality, or the owner or operator of a public water supply | ||
system may not be held liable for any adverse health effects | ||
allegedly caused by the consumption of water collected by a | ||
rainwater harvesting system that is connected to a public water | ||
supply system and is used for potable purposes if the municipally | ||
owned water or wastewater utility, municipality, or public water | ||
supply system is in compliance with the sanitary standards for | ||
drinking water applicable to the municipally owned water or | ||
wastewater utility, municipality, or public water supply system. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the House on April | ||
20, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3372 on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3372 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |