Bill Text: TX SB2155 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 2155 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the retention of soil samples and records related to a permit for a municipal solid waste facility issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; creating an administrative penalty.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2155 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2155-Introduced.html

	86R14177 SLB-D

	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 2155



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the retention of soil samples and records related to a
	permit for a municipal solid waste facility issued by the Texas
	Commission on Environmental Quality; creating an administrative
	penalty.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 361.127 to read as follows:
	Sec. 361.127. RETENTION OF SAMPLES AND RECORDS RELATING TO
	MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE FACILITY. (a) The commission shall adopt
	rules to govern the retention of soil samples and other physical
	evidence and records of that evidence in relation to a permitted
	municipal solid waste facility or proposed municipal solid waste
	facility for which an application has been submitted.
	(b) Rules adopted under this section must require retention
	of:
	(1) soil samples and other physical evidence taken in
	relation to a permit application for a municipal solid waste
	facility until a final action has been taken by the commission on
	the application; and
	(2) records of soil samples or other physical evidence
	taken in relation to a permit issued for a municipal solid waste
	facility until the closure of the facility.
	(c) A violation of this section is subject to an
	administrative penalty imposed by the commission under Section
	7.051, Water Code.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.