Bill Text: TX HB3810 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3810 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3810-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Landgraf H.B. No. 3810
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on
  Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 341.033, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (i-1) to
  read as follows:
         (i)  An owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in
  charge of a public water supply system that furnishes water for
  public or private use or a wastewater system that provides
  wastewater services for public or private use shall maintain
  internal procedures to notify the commission immediately of the
  following events, if the event may negatively impact the production
  or delivery of safe and adequate drinking water:
               (1)  an unusual or unexplained unauthorized entry at
  property of the public water supply or wastewater system;
               (2)  an act of terrorism against the public water
  supply or wastewater system;
               (3)  an unauthorized attempt to probe for or gain
  access to proprietary information that supports the key activities
  of the public water supply or wastewater system;
               (4)  a theft of property that supports the key
  activities of the public water supply or wastewater system; [or]
               (5)  a natural disaster, accident, or act that results
  in damage to the public water supply or wastewater system; or
               (6)  for a nonindustrial public water supply system, an
  unplanned condition that has caused or is likely to cause a public
  water supply outage or the public water supply system to issue a
  do-not-use advisory, do-not-consume advisory, or boil water
  notice.
         (i-1)  The commission may collaborate with the Texas
  Division of Emergency Management in regulating the method of
  notifications provided under Subsection (i)(6). Subsection (i)(6)
  does not require an owner, agent, manager, operator, or other
  person in charge of a nonindustrial public water supply system to
  provide notice of a weather or emergency alert, warning, or watch
  issued by the National Weather Service, the National Oceanic and
  Atmospheric Administration, or the Texas Division of Emergency
  Management or a successor federal or state agency.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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