Bill Text: TX HB696 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 696 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification center of a planned excavation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-27 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB696 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB696-Introduced.html

	88R1998 KBB-D

	By: Rogers	H.B. No. 696



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification
	center of a planned excavation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 251.153(c), Utilities Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(c) Not later than two hours after the time the notification
	center receives a notice of intent to excavate from an excavator or
	from a different notification center, the notification center shall
	notify:
	(1) each member operator that may have an underground
	facility in the vicinity of the proposed excavation operation; and
	(2) each owner of land in the proposed area of
	excavation.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.