Bill Text: TX HB696 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification center of a planned excavation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-27 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB696 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB696-Introduced.html

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88R1998 KBB-D
By: Rogers H.B. No. 696

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification
center of a planned excavation.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 251.153(c), Utilities Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) Not later than two hours after the time the notification
center receives a notice of intent to excavate from an excavator or
from a different notification center, the notification center shall
notify:
(1) each member operator that may have an underground
facility in the vicinity of the proposed excavation operation; and
(2) each owner of land in the proposed area of
excavation.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.