Bill Text: TX HB1949 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public notice of a crematory's compliance history, rating, and classification.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - Filed [HB1949 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB1949-Introduced.html
| 89R5024 KRM-D | ||
| By: Howard | H.B. No. 1949 | |
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| relating to public notice of a crematory's compliance history, | ||
| rating, and classification. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.070 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.070. NOTICE OF CREMATORY COMPLIANCE. (a) In this | ||
| section, "crematory" has the meaning assigned by Section 711.001. | ||
| (b) The commission shall post on the commission's Internet | ||
| website information relating to the compliance with this chapter of | ||
| each crematory operating under a permit issued under this chapter, | ||
| including the crematory's compliance history and classification | ||
| according to commission standards adopted under Sections 5.753 and | ||
| 5.754, Water Code. The commission must: | ||
| (1) display the information in a manner that is easily | ||
| and publicly accessible; and | ||
| (2) update the Internet website with a crematory's | ||
| current information not later than: | ||
| (A) the 30th day after the date the commission | ||
| changes a crematory's compliance history or classification; or | ||
| (B) the 30th day after the date the executive | ||
| director issues a decision in response to a crematory's appeal of an | ||
| updated classification. | ||
| (c) The commission shall develop a template for crematories | ||
| to use for displaying the public notice required under Subsection | ||
| (d). | ||
| (d) The commission by rule shall require each crematory | ||
| operating under a permit issued under this chapter to display in a | ||
| conspicuous manner clearly visible to the public a notice that | ||
| includes: | ||
| (1) the regulated name and reference number of the | ||
| crematory; | ||
| (2) the compliance history and classification of the | ||
| crematory; | ||
| (3) instructions for submitting complaints regarding | ||
| emissions from the crematory to the commission and for contacting | ||
| the closest commission regional office; and | ||
| (4) instructions for accessing the commission's | ||
| Internet website for more details on the compliance history and | ||
| classification of the crematory. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) Not later than September 1, 2026, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement Section 382.070, Health and Safety Code, as added by this | ||
| Act. | ||
| (b) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is not | ||
| required to post the information required by Section 382.070(b), | ||
| Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, before the commission | ||
| adopts the rules required by Section 382.070(d), Health and Safety | ||
| Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
