Bill Text: TX SB1073 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to rainwater harvesting systems that are connected to public water supply systems.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB1073 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1073-Enrolled.html
| S.B. No. 1073 | ||
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| relating to rainwater harvesting systems that are connected to | ||
| public water supply systems. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 341.042, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsections (b-1), | ||
| (b-2), (b-3), and (b-4) to read as follows: | ||
| (b) The commission by rule shall provide that if a structure | ||
| is connected to a public water supply system and has a rainwater | ||
| harvesting system for indoor use,[ |
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| (b-1) The commission shall work with the department to | ||
| develop rules regarding the installation and maintenance of | ||
| rainwater harvesting systems that are used for indoor potable | ||
| purposes and connected to a public water supply system. The rules | ||
| must contain criteria that are sufficient to ensure that: | ||
| (1) safe sanitary drinking water standards are met; | ||
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| (2) harvested rainwater does not come into | ||
| communication with a public water supply system's drinking water at | ||
| a location off of the property on which the rainwater harvesting | ||
| system is located. | ||
| (b-2) A person who installs and maintains rainwater | ||
| harvesting systems that are connected to a public water supply | ||
| system and are used for potable purposes must be licensed by the | ||
| Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners as a master plumber or | ||
| journeyman plumber and hold an endorsement issued by the board as a | ||
| water supply protection specialist. | ||
| (b-3) A person who intends to connect a rainwater harvesting | ||
| system to a public water supply system for use for potable purposes | ||
| must give written notice of that intention to the municipality in | ||
| which the rainwater harvesting system is located or the owner or | ||
| operator of the public water supply system before connecting the | ||
| rainwater harvesting system to the public water supply system. | ||
| (b-4) A municipally owned water or wastewater utility, a | ||
| municipality, or the owner or operator of a public water supply | ||
| system may not be held liable for any adverse health effects | ||
| allegedly caused by the consumption of water collected by a | ||
| rainwater harvesting system that is connected to a public water | ||
| supply system and is used for potable purposes if the municipally | ||
| owned water or wastewater utility, municipality, or public water | ||
| supply system is in compliance with the sanitary standards for | ||
| drinking water applicable to the municipally owned water or | ||
| wastewater utility, municipality, or public water supply system. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1073 passed the Senate on | ||
| May 10, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1073 passed the House on | ||
| May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two | ||
| present not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| Approved: | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
