Bill Text: TX HB3810 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3810 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB3810-Enrolled.html

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H.B. No. 3810

AN ACT
relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 341.033, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (i-1) to
read as follows:
(i) An owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in
charge of a public water supply system that furnishes water for
public or private use or a wastewater system that provides
wastewater services for public or private use shall maintain
internal procedures to notify the commission immediately of the
following events, if the event may negatively impact the production
or delivery of safe and adequate drinking water:
(1) an unusual or unexplained unauthorized entry at
property of the public water supply or wastewater system;
(2) an act of terrorism against the public water
supply or wastewater system;
(3) an unauthorized attempt to probe for or gain
access to proprietary information that supports the key activities
of the public water supply or wastewater system;
(4) a theft of property that supports the key
activities of the public water supply or wastewater system; [or]
(5) a natural disaster, accident, or act that results
in damage to the public water supply or wastewater system; or
(6) for a nonindustrial public water supply system, an
unplanned condition that has caused a public water supply outage or
the public water supply system to issue a do-not-use advisory,
do-not-consume advisory, or boil water notice.
(i-1) The commission may collaborate with the Texas
Division of Emergency Management in administering the notification
requirement in Subsection (i)(6), including determining the method
by which the notifications are provided. Subsection (i)(6) does
not require an owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in
charge of a nonindustrial public water supply system to provide
notice of a weather or emergency alert, warning, or watch issued by
the National Weather Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, or the Texas Division of Emergency Management or a
successor federal or state agency.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3810 was passed by the House on May
11, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 3810 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3810 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor