Bill Text: TX HB3333 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB3333 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3333-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3333 | ||
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| relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges | ||
| of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and | ||
| drainage areas. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended | ||
| by adding Section 26.0275 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 26.0275. RESTRICTION ON PERMITS FOR DISCHARGES INTO | ||
| CERTAIN SEGMENTS AND DRAINAGE AREAS. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Classified segment" means any portion of Devils | ||
| River located in Val Verde County and identified in Appendices A and | ||
| C of 30 T.A.C. Section 307.10 as it existed on September 1, 2025. | ||
| (2) "Unclassified water body" means a water body other | ||
| than a classified segment. | ||
| (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the commission may | ||
| not issue a new permit authorizing the direct discharge from a | ||
| domestic or industrial wastewater treatment facility of any waste, | ||
| effluent, or pollutants into a classified segment or an | ||
| unclassified water body in Val Verde County that drains into a | ||
| classified segment. | ||
| (c) This section does not affect the authority of the | ||
| commission to issue: | ||
| (1) an individual or general permit for a municipal | ||
| separate storm sewer system; or | ||
| (2) a general permit for stormwater and associated | ||
| non-stormwater discharges. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to an application for a permit that is submitted to the Texas | ||
| Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date | ||
| of this Act. An application for a permit that was submitted to the | ||
| Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before the effective date | ||
| of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the | ||
| application was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
| that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3333 was passed by the House on May | ||
| 15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 26, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3333 on May 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 99, Nays 37, | ||
| 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3333 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays | ||
| 2. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
