Bill Text: TX SB471 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the investigation by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain complaints.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB471 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB471-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 471 |
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relating to the investigation by the Texas Commission on | ||
Environmental Quality of certain complaints. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 5.176, Water Code, is amended by adding | ||
Subsection (c) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The commission is not required to investigate a | ||
complaint: | ||
(1) that may be addressed during other commission | ||
activities; or | ||
(2) that was filed by an individual when there is not a | ||
reasonable probability that the commission can substantiate the | ||
complaint and: | ||
(A) the complaint is repetitious or redundant of | ||
other complaints concerning the same site investigated in the | ||
preceding 12 months that were not substantiated by the commission; | ||
or | ||
(B) the complainant has filed in the preceding | ||
seven years at least five complaints that were not substantiated by | ||
the commission. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 5.177(c), Water Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
(c) The commission is not required to provide the | ||
information described in Subsection (a) or (b) to a complainant | ||
who: | ||
(1) files an anonymous complaint; | ||
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(3) files a complaint described by Section 5.176(c). | ||
SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a complaint filed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 471 passed the Senate on | ||
April 27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 22, Nays 9. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 471 passed the House on | ||
May 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 85, Nays 59, | ||
two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |