Bill Text: TX HB240 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to adopt rules preventing access to on-site sewage disposal systems.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB240 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB240-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 240 | ||
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| relating to requiring the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| to adopt rules preventing access to on-site sewage disposal | ||
| systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 366.012(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) To assure the effective and efficient administration of | ||
| this chapter, the commission shall: | ||
| (1) adopt rules governing the installation of on-site | ||
| sewage disposal systems, including rules concerning the: | ||
| (A) review and approval of on-site sewage | ||
| disposal systems; and | ||
| (B) temporary waiver of a permit for an emergency | ||
| repair; and | ||
| (2) adopt rules under this chapter that: | ||
| (A) encourage the use of economically feasible | ||
| alternative techniques and technologies for on-site sewage | ||
| disposal systems that can be used in soils not suitable for | ||
| conventional on-site sewage disposal; [ |
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| (B) address the separation of graywater, as | ||
| defined by Section 341.039, in a residence served by an on-site | ||
| sewage disposal system; and | ||
| (C) require on-site sewage disposal systems, | ||
| including risers and covers, installed after September 1, 2012, to | ||
| be designed to prevent access to the system by anyone other than: | ||
| (i) the owner of the system; or | ||
| (ii) a person described by Section | ||
| 366.071(a) or (b). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 240 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 240 on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 1, 2 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 240 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
