Bill Text: TX HB4087 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an affirmative defense to a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality enforcement action for unauthorized emission events.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB4087 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4087-Introduced.html
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By: Blanco | H.B. No. 4087 |
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relating to an affirmative defense to a Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality enforcement action for unauthorized emission | ||
events. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 382.0216(f) and (h), Health and Safety | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
an enforcement action initiated by the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. An | ||
enforcement action initiated before the effective date of this Act | ||
is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
date of this Act, 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, 2019. |