Bill Text: TX SB2497 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the installation of a treatment system by certain public drinking water supply systems.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-27 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB2497 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB2497-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 2497
(Guillen)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the installation of a treatment system by certain
public drinking water supply systems.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 341, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 341.0365 to read as follows:
Sec. 341.0365. TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR CERTAIN UNDERGROUND
SOURCES. The commission by order may require a public drinking
water supply system that serves fewer than 100 connections and
obtains its water supply from an underground source to install a
treatment system, which may include a filtration system, for that
source if the public water system:
(1) has repeatedly exceeded the maximum contaminant
level or secondary constituent level for one or more parameters
established by the commission;
(2) has been the subject of more than one
substantiated water quality complaint submitted to the commission,
not including a complaint submitted to the commission regarding
water quality issues associated with the distribution system that
are not related to water quality issues from the underground
source, during the preceding 12 months for which the commission has
determined a need to install additional treatment measures,
including requiring the public water system to install a filtration
system; and
(3) can install at a reasonable cost the treatment
system for that source to manage an exceedance of a secondary
constituent level, if applicable.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.