Bill Text: TX HB4856 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality over certain recharge injection wells.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB4856 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4856-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 4856 | ||
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| relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality over certain recharge injection wells. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 27.201, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subdivision (1-a) to read as follows: | ||
| (1-a) "Fluid oil and gas waste" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 122.001, Natural Resources Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 27.202, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 27.202. JURISDICTION. (a) The commission has | ||
| exclusive jurisdiction over the regulation and permitting of | ||
| recharge injection wells, including recharge injection wells used | ||
| for the injection of fluid oil and gas waste. | ||
| (b) A recharge injection well may not be used for the | ||
| injection of fluid oil and gas waste unless the waste has been | ||
| treated to meet the standards adopted by the commission under this | ||
| subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 4856 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
| 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 4856 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
