Bill Text: TX SB1086 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain water and sewage utilities to ensure public safety in and around certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1086 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1086-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain water and sewage utilities to ensure public safety in and around certain municipalities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1086 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1086-Engrossed.html
By: Campbell | S.B. No. 1086 |
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relating to the authority to regulate certain water and sewage | ||
utilities to ensure public safety in and around certain | ||
municipalities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 341.0358, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended by amending Subdivision (1) and adding | ||
Subdivision (1-a) to read as follows: | ||
(1) "Industrial district" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 42.044, Local Government Code, and includes an area that is | ||
designated by the governing body of a municipality as a zoned | ||
industrial area. | ||
(1-a) "Public utility" has the meaning assigned by | ||
Section 13.002, Water Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (g), Section 341.0358, Health and | ||
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) This section also applies to: | ||
(1) a municipality with a population of more than | ||
36,000 and less than 41,000 located in two counties, one of which is | ||
a county with a population of more than 1.8 million; | ||
(2) a municipality, including any industrial district | ||
within the municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, with | ||
a population of more than 7,000 and less than 30,000 located in a | ||
county with a population of more than 155,000 and less than 180,000; | ||
and | ||
(3) a municipality, including any industrial district | ||
within the municipality or its extraterritorial jurisdiction, with | ||
a population of more than 11,000 and less than 18,000 located in a | ||
county with a population of more than 125,000 and less than 230,000. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |