Bill Text: TX SB2065 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to affirmative defenses for a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality enforcement action for unauthorized emission or opacity events.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2065 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2065-Introduced.html
| 86R9595 MP-F | ||
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2065 | |
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| relating to affirmative defenses for a Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality enforcement action for unauthorized emission | ||
| or opacity events. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The following provisions of the Health and | ||
| Safety Code are repealed: | ||
| (1) Sections 382.0216(f) and (h); and | ||
| (2) Sections 382.051962(c) and (d). | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an enforcement action initiated by the Texas Commission on | ||
| Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
| enforcement action initiated before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
| date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
