Bill Text: TX SB796 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the construction of certain concrete batch plants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB796 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB796-Introduced.html
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| By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 796 | |
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| relating to the construction of certain concrete batch plants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.051995 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.051995. EXTENSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE | ||
| BATCH PLANT; NOTICE TO STATE SENATOR AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE. (a) | ||
| The executive director may grant a person authorized under a | ||
| standard permit issued under Section 382.05195 or Section 382.05198 | ||
| to construct a concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry | ||
| batching, or central mixing only one extension to any deadline to | ||
| begin construction of the plant incorporated in the standard | ||
| permit. The extension may not exceed 90 days. | ||
| (b) If a person granted an extension described by Subsection | ||
| (a) fails to begin construction within the time allotted under the | ||
| authorization to use the standard permit or the extension period, | ||
| the person must submit a new application for an authorization to use | ||
| the standard permit before beginning construction. | ||
| (c) On receiving a request to extend a deadline under | ||
| Subsection (a), the executive director shall send notice of the | ||
| request to the state senator and representative who represent the | ||
| area in which the facility will be located. | ||
| SECTION 2. Not later than September 1, 2026, the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules necessary to | ||
| implement the changes in law made by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 382.051995, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to an authorization to use a | ||
| standard permit the application for which is filed with the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. An authorization the application for which is filed | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the application was filed, and that law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
