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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