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

Texas House Bill 3810

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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-Introduced.html

	88R14128 JXC-F

	By: Landgraf	H.B. No. 3810



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	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) a condition that has caused or could cause a public
	water supply outage or a public water supply system to issue a boil
	water notice, a do-not-use advisory, or a do-not-consume advisory.
	(i-1) The commission may collaborate with the Texas
	Division of Emergency Management in regulating the method of
	notifications provided under Subsection (i)(6).
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.