Bill Text: TX HB2198 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to administrative penalties for air quality violations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-10 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB2198 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2198-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles | H.B. No. 2198 | |
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| relating to administrative penalties for air quality violations. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 7.052(d), Water Code, is amended to read | ||
| as follows: | ||
| (d) Except as provided by Subsection (b), each day that a | ||
| continuing violation occurs may be considered a separate violation. | ||
| For a violation of Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, the | ||
| commission may assess a separate penalty for each type of pollutant | ||
| emitted in violation of that chapter. The commission may authorize | ||
| an installment payment schedule for an administrative penalty | ||
| assessed under this subchapter, except for an administrative | ||
| penalty assessed under Section 7.057. | ||
| SECTION 2. (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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
