Bill Text: TX HB137 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 137 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to reports by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality about dams that have certain hazard classifications.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-10 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB137 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB137-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 137




	AN ACT
	relating to reports by the Texas Commission on Environmental
	Quality about dams that have certain hazard classifications.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 12.052, Water Code, is amended by adding
	Subsections (e-3), (e-4), and (e-5) to read as follows:
	(e-3) For purposes of this subsection, the emergency
	management director for a municipality or county is the person
	designated that political subdivision's emergency management
	director by Section 418.1015, Government Code. The commission
	shall provide a report of a dam that has a hazard classification of
	high or significant to:
	(1) the emergency management director, or the
	emergency management director's designee, for the municipality or
	county in which the dam is located; and
	(2) the executive director or equivalent position of
	each council of government or local or regional development council
	for the area in which the dam is located.
	(e-4) The commission shall make a report as described by
	Subsection (e-3) not later than the 30th day after the date of the
	designation of a dam as a high or significant hazard
	classification. The report must include the hazard classification
	and condition status for each dam that has had a change in hazard
	classification located in the political subdivision.
	(e-5) The commission shall provide a biannual report
	including condition status and other information on each dam with a
	hazard classification of high or significant to the emergency
	management director, or the emergency management director's
	designee, of each municipality and county and the executive
	director or equivalent position of each council of government or
	local or regional development council in which a dam included in the
	report is located.
	SECTION 2. For each dam that, as of the effective date of
	this Act, the executive director of the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality maintains a classification of high or
	significant hazard, the commission shall provide a report regarding
	the hazard classification and condition status of the dam to the
	emergency management director, or the emergency management
	director's designee, of each municipality and county and the
	executive director or equivalent position of each council of
	government or local or regional development council in which the
	dam is located as provided by Section 12.052(e-3), Water Code, as
	added by this Act. Each report must be provided as soon as
	practicable and not later than March 1, 2020.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 137 was passed by the House on April
	26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 137 was passed by the Senate on May
	21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor