Bill Text: TX SB223 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-29 - Co-author authorized [SB223 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB223-Introduced.html
88R1040 MP-D | ||
By: Campbell | S.B. No. 223 |
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relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment | ||
facilities. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 26.028, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
(i) The commission shall hold at least one public meeting on | ||
an application for an initial permit for a wastewater treatment | ||
facility in the county in which the facility is proposed to be | ||
located. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 26.028(i), Water Code, as added by this | ||
Act, applies only to an application for a permit that is submitted | ||
to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. An application for a permit that was | ||
submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before | ||
the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at | ||
the time the application was filed, and the former law is continued | ||
in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |