Bill Text: TX SB434 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the procedural requirements for action by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on applications for production area authorizations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-05-06 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB434 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB434-Comm_Sub.html
By: Hancock | S.B. No. 434 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 7, 2013; February 13, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; | ||
April 24, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 2; April 24, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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relating to the procedural requirements for action by the Texas | ||
Commission on Environmental Quality on applications for production | ||
area authorizations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 27.0513, Water Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Sections 5.551, 5.556, 27.011, and | ||
27.018, an application for an authorization submitted after | ||
September 1, 2007, is an uncontested matter not subject to a | ||
contested case hearing or the hearing requirements of Chapter 2001, | ||
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SECTION 2. Subsections (e) and (f), Section 27.0513, Water | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an application for an authorization that is submitted to the | ||
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. An application for an authorization that was | ||
submitted to the commission before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect at the time the application was | ||
submitted, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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