Bill Text: TX HB3543 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of certain local government enforcement actions in the evaluation of compliance history by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-22 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB3543 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3543-Introduced.html
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By: Farrar | H.B. No. 3543 |
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relating to the inclusion of certain local government enforcement | ||
actions in the evaluation of compliance history by the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 5.753(b), Water Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(b) The components of compliance history must include: | ||
(1) enforcement orders, court judgments, consent | ||
decrees, and criminal convictions of a local government to which | ||
the commission refers complaints for investigation, this state, and | ||
the federal government relating to compliance with applicable legal | ||
requirements under the jurisdiction of the commission or the United | ||
States Environmental Protection Agency; | ||
(2) notwithstanding any other provision of this code, | ||
orders issued under Section 7.070; | ||
(3) to the extent readily available to the commission, | ||
enforcement orders, court judgments, and criminal convictions | ||
relating to violations of environmental laws of other states; and | ||
(4) changes in ownership. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an enforcement order, court judgment, consent decree, or | ||
criminal conviction of a local government that becomes final on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |