Bill Text: TX HB407 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 407 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to who may request a public hearing from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality related to the construction of a concrete plant.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB407 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB407-Introduced.html

	88R3288 MP-F

	By: Collier	H.B. No. 407



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to who may request a public hearing from the Texas
	Commission on Environmental Quality related to the construction of
	a concrete plant.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 382.058(c), Health and Safety Code, is
	amended to read as follows:
	(c) For purposes of this section, only a representative of a
	school, place of worship, licensed day-care center, hospital, or
	medical facility or a person [~~those persons actually~~] residing [in
	~~a permanent residence~~] within 880 [~~440~~] yards of the proposed plant
	may request a hearing under Section 382.056 as a person who may be
	affected. The commission shall adopt rules establishing who
	qualifies as a representative of a school, place of worship,
	licensed day-care center, hospital, or medical facility under this
	section.
	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 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, 2023.