Bill Text: TX SB594 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requirements for and charges for service from public drinking water supply systems.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-02 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB594 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB594-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 594 | ||
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| relating to requirements for and charges for service from public | ||
| drinking water supply systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 341.0315, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (c) Each public drinking water supply system shall provide | ||
| an adequate and safe drinking water supply. The supply must: | ||
| (1) meet the requirements of Section 341.031 and | ||
| commission rules; and | ||
| (2) provide a quantity of water or capacity of water | ||
| sufficient to serve the number of connections served by the public | ||
| drinking water supply system. | ||
| (c-1) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission by rule | ||
| shall establish connection equivalency values for each meter size | ||
| used to serve a recreational vehicle park, as defined by Section | ||
| 13.087, Water Code, for use in determining the number of | ||
| connections served by a public drinking water supply system that | ||
| provides service through meters. When determining the number of | ||
| connections, the commission may only consider service for which a | ||
| meter has been installed that conforms with industry standards. | ||
| The rules must: | ||
| (1) establish that eight recreational vehicle or cabin | ||
| sites at a recreational vehicle park, whether occupied or not, are | ||
| equivalent to one residential metered connection; and | ||
| (2) provide a variance from a connection equivalency | ||
| value established under this subsection for a public drinking water | ||
| supply system if actual system usage is more than 10 percent below | ||
| the equivalency value. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter E, Chapter 13, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 13.152 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.152. BILLING FOR RECREATIONAL VEHICLE PARKS. (a) | ||
| In this section, "recreational vehicle park" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 13.087. | ||
| (b) A retail public utility, other than a municipally owned | ||
| utility described by Section 13.087, providing water or sewer | ||
| service to a recreational vehicle park: | ||
| (1) shall ensure that billing for the service is based | ||
| on actual water usage recorded by the retail public utility; and | ||
| (2) may not impose a surcharge based on the number of | ||
| recreational vehicle or cabin sites in the recreational vehicle | ||
| park. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 594 passed the Senate on | ||
| April 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
| the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 17, 2023, by the | ||
| following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 594 passed the House, with | ||
| amendment, on May 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 127, | ||
| Nays 13, two present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
