Bill Text: TX SB277 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the consideration of certain local government actions before the renewal of air permits for certain concrete plants.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Natural Resources [SB277 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB277-Introduced.html
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| By: Miles, Alvarado, Cook | S.B. No. 277 | |
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| relating to the consideration of certain local government actions | ||
| before the renewal of air permits for certain concrete plants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.051955 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.051955. STANDARD PERMIT FOR CONCRETE BATCH PLANTS: | ||
| CONSIDERATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTION BEFORE RENEWAL. (a) This | ||
| section applies only to the renewal of an authorization to use a | ||
| standard permit issued under Section 382.05195 for the operation of | ||
| a permanent concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry | ||
| batching, or central mixing. | ||
| (b) In determining whether and under which conditions to | ||
| renew an authorization described by Subsection (a), the commission | ||
| shall, while classifying the applicant's compliance history under | ||
| Section 5.754, Water Code, consider any civil suit instituted and | ||
| any other enforcement actions taken by a local government against | ||
| the applicant under Chapter 7, Water Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 382.051955, Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to an application for a renewal of | ||
| an authorization to use a standard permit that is submitted to the | ||
| Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective | ||
| date of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
