Bill Text: TX SB1406 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the suspension of an enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service for a violation committed by a retail public utility being integrated into the regional service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-16 - Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs [SB1406 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB1406-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 1406 | |
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| relating to the suspension of an enforcement action against a | ||
| regional water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service for a | ||
| violation committed by a retail public utility being integrated | ||
| into the regional service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 7.0026, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 7.0026. SUSPENSION OF ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST | ||
| CERTAIN REGIONAL WATER, SEWER, OR SOLID WASTE SERVICES. (a) In | ||
| this section, "retail public utility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 13.002. | ||
| (b) If a water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid | ||
| waste disposal service operated by or for a municipality or county | ||
| is being integrated into a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater | ||
| treatment, or solid waste disposal service, the commission may | ||
| enter into a compliance agreement with the regional service under | ||
| which the commission will not initiate an enforcement action | ||
| against the regional service for existing or anticipated violations | ||
| resulting from the operation by the regional service of the service | ||
| being integrated. A compliance agreement under this section must | ||
| include provisions necessary to bring the service being integrated | ||
| into compliance. | ||
| (c) If a water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment | ||
| service operated by a retail public utility, other than a | ||
| municipality or county, is being integrated into a regional water | ||
| supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service administered by | ||
| another entity, the commission may enter into a compliance | ||
| agreement with the regional service under which the commission will | ||
| not initiate an enforcement action against the regional service for | ||
| existing or anticipated violations resulting from the operation by | ||
| the regional service of the service being integrated. A compliance | ||
| agreement under this section must include provisions necessary to | ||
| bring the service being integrated into compliance. | ||
| (d) This section does not prohibit the commission from | ||
| initiating an enforcement action against a regional service that is | ||
| a party to a compliance agreement if the regional service does not | ||
| substantially comply with the agreement. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than December 1, 2023, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules as necessary | ||
| to implement Section 7.0026(c), Water Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
