Bill Text: TX SB2062 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the publication of pathogen-related data from river basins by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Water & Rural Affairs [SB2062 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2062-Introduced.html
| 86R12741 JXC-F | ||
| By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 2062 | |
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| relating to the publication of pathogen-related data from river | ||
| basins by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 26.0135, Water Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (h-1) Each river authority shall regularly provide to the | ||
| commission data from the river authority's watershed and river | ||
| basin water quality database that relates to pathogens and pathogen | ||
| indicators in the river authority's river basin. The commission | ||
| shall publish on the commission's Internet website: | ||
| (1) data received under this subsection; and | ||
| (2) data related to pathogens and pathogen indicators | ||
| in river basins where a river authority is unable to perform an | ||
| adequate assessment of its own watershed. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
