Bill Text: TX HB441 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to providing notice to a state representative and senator of an administrative penalty assessed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB441 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB441-Introduced.html

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By: Lopez of Bexar H.B. No. 441

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing notice to a state representative and senator
of an administrative penalty assessed by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7.060, Water Code, is amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 7.060. NOTICE OF PENALTY. If the commission is
required to give notice of a penalty under Section 7.057 or 7.059,
the commission shall:
(1) publish notice of its decision in the Texas
Register not later than the 10th day after the date on which the
decision is adopted; and
(2) notify the state representative and state senator
who represent the area where the violation for which the penalty is
being assessed occurred.
SECTION 2. Section 7.075(a), Water Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(a) Before the commission approves an administrative order
or proposed agreement to settle an administrative enforcement
action initiated under this subchapter to which the commission is a
party, the commission shall:
(1) allow the public to comment in writing on the
proposed order or agreement;
(2) publish notice [. Notice] of the opportunity to
comment on the proposed order or agreement [shall be published] in
the Texas Register not later than the 30th day before the date on
which the public comment period closes; and
(3) notify the state representative and state senator
who represent the area in which the violation that is the subject of
the proposed order or agreement occurred.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.