Bill Text: TX HB3810 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3810 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3810-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by public water supply systems.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB3810 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3810-Comm_Sub.html
By: Landgraf (Senate Sponsor - Perry) | H.B. No. 3810 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2023; | ||
May 12, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, | ||
Agriculture & Rural Affairs; May 19, 2023, reported adversely, | ||
with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; May 19, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3810 | By: Perry |
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relating to certain notices provided to the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality by public water supply systems. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 341.033, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended by amending Subsection (i) and adding Subsection (i-1) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(i) An owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in | ||
charge of a public water supply system that furnishes water for | ||
public or private use or a wastewater system that provides | ||
wastewater services for public or private use shall maintain | ||
internal procedures to notify the commission immediately of the | ||
following events, if the event may negatively impact the production | ||
or delivery of safe and adequate drinking water: | ||
(1) an unusual or unexplained unauthorized entry at | ||
property of the public water supply or wastewater system; | ||
(2) an act of terrorism against the public water | ||
supply or wastewater system; | ||
(3) an unauthorized attempt to probe for or gain | ||
access to proprietary information that supports the key activities | ||
of the public water supply or wastewater system; | ||
(4) a theft of property that supports the key | ||
activities of the public water supply or wastewater system; [ |
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(5) a natural disaster, accident, or act that results | ||
in damage to the public water supply or wastewater system; or | ||
(6) for a nonindustrial public water supply system, an | ||
unplanned condition that has caused a public water supply outage or | ||
the public water supply system to issue a do-not-use advisory, | ||
do-not-consume advisory, or boil water notice. | ||
(i-1) The commission may collaborate with the Texas | ||
Division of Emergency Management in administering the notification | ||
requirement in Subsection (i)(6), including determining the method | ||
by which the notifications are provided. Subsection (i)(6) does | ||
not require an owner, agent, manager, operator, or other person in | ||
charge of a nonindustrial public water supply system to provide | ||
notice of a weather or emergency alert, warning, or watch issued by | ||
the National Weather Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric | ||
Administration, or the Texas Division of Emergency Management or a | ||
successor federal or state agency. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
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