Bill Text: TX HB2726 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the commencement of construction of a project following the issuance of a draft permit for a permit amendment to an air quality permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 1/1/20 [HB2726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2726-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the commencement of construction of a project following the issuance of a draft permit for a permit amendment to an air quality permit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 1/1/20 [HB2726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2726-Comm_Sub.html
86R22150 SLB-F | |||
By: Kuempel | H.B. No. 2726 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2726: | |||
By: Lozano | C.S.H.B. No. 2726 |
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relating to the commencement of construction of a project following | ||
the issuance of a draft permit for a permit amendment to an air | ||
quality permit. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 382.004, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 382.004. CONSTRUCTION WHILE PERMIT AMENDMENT | ||
APPLICATION PENDING. (a) To the extent permissible under federal | ||
law and notwithstanding Section 382.0518, a person who submits an | ||
application for a permit amendment [ |
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the person's own risk, begin construction related to the | ||
application after the executive director has issued a draft permit | ||
including the permit amendment [ |
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(b) The commission may not consider construction begun | ||
under this section in determining whether to grant the permit | ||
amendment sought in the application. | ||
(c) The commission shall adopt rules to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an application for a permit amendment filed with the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date | ||
of this Act. An application for a permit amendment filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date of filing, and that law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2020. |