Bill Text: TX SB430 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to written notice to a groundwater conservation district of groundwater contamination.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB430 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB430-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 430 |
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relating to written notice to a groundwater conservation district | ||
of groundwater contamination. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 5.236, Water Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) If the executive director acquires information that | ||
confirms that a potential public health hazard exists because | ||
usable groundwater has been or is being contaminated, the executive | ||
director, not later than the 30th day after the date on which the | ||
executive director acquires the information confirming | ||
contamination, shall give written notice of the contamination to | ||
the following persons: | ||
(1) the county judge and the county health officer, if | ||
any, in each county in which the contamination has occurred or is | ||
occurring; | ||
(2) any person under the commission's jurisdiction who | ||
is suspected of contributing to the contamination; [ |
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(3) any other state agency with jurisdiction over any | ||
person who is suspected of contributing to the contamination; and | ||
(4) a groundwater conservation district, if the | ||
contamination has occurred or is occurring in the jurisdiction of | ||
the district. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to groundwater | ||
contamination about which the executive director of the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality acquires information on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. Groundwater contamination | ||
about which the executive director of the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality acquires information before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
information is acquired, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 430 passed the Senate on | ||
March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 430 passed the House on | ||
May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |