Bill Text: TX SB2125 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of aggregate production operation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; increasing an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2125 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2125-Introduced.html
86R4890 MP-F | ||
By: Creighton, Buckingham | S.B. No. 2125 |
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relating to the regulation of aggregate production operation by the | ||
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; increasing an | ||
administrative penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 7.052, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (b-5) to read as follows: | ||
(b-5) The amount of the penalty against a facility operator | ||
for operating an aggregate production operation, as defined by | ||
Section 28A.001, in violation of a permit issued by the commission | ||
under Section 26.027 or 26.040 of this code or under Section | ||
382.051, Health and Safety Code, may not exceed $50,000 a day for | ||
each day a violation continues. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 7.069, Water Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (c) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsections [ |
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(c), a penalty collected under this subchapter shall be deposited | ||
to the credit of the general revenue fund. | ||
(c) A penalty collected under Section 7.052(b-5) shall be | ||
paid to the commission and deposited to the credit of the water | ||
resources management account and that money may be used only to | ||
implement Chapter 28A. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 28A.053(a), Water Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) The commission shall inspect each active aggregate | ||
production operation in this state for compliance with applicable | ||
environmental laws and rules under the jurisdiction of the | ||
commission at least once every two [ |
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SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
7.052, Water Code, applies only to a violation that occurs on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. For purposes of this section, | ||
a violation occurs before the effective date of this Act if any | ||
element of the violation occurs before that date. | ||
(b) A violation that occurs before the effective date of | ||
this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date of the | ||
violation, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |