Bill Text: TX SB2155 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the retention of soil samples and records related to a permit for a municipal solid waste facility issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; creating an administrative penalty.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2155 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2155-Introduced.html
86R14177 SLB-D | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 2155 |
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relating to the retention of soil samples and records related to a | ||
permit for a municipal solid waste facility issued by the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality; creating an administrative | ||
penalty. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.127 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 361.127. RETENTION OF SAMPLES AND RECORDS RELATING TO | ||
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE FACILITY. (a) The commission shall adopt | ||
rules to govern the retention of soil samples and other physical | ||
evidence and records of that evidence in relation to a permitted | ||
municipal solid waste facility or proposed municipal solid waste | ||
facility for which an application has been submitted. | ||
(b) Rules adopted under this section must require retention | ||
of: | ||
(1) soil samples and other physical evidence taken in | ||
relation to a permit application for a municipal solid waste | ||
facility until a final action has been taken by the commission on | ||
the application; and | ||
(2) records of soil samples or other physical evidence | ||
taken in relation to a permit issued for a municipal solid waste | ||
facility until the closure of the facility. | ||
(c) A violation of this section is subject to an | ||
administrative penalty imposed by the commission under Section | ||
7.051, Water Code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |