Bill Text: TX SB747 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 747 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition on the issuance by the Railroad Commission of Texas of a permit for a commercial surface disposal facility located near a municipality.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB747 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB747-Introduced.html

	85R5036 JXC-D

	By: Kolkhorst	S.B. No. 747



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a prohibition on the issuance by the Railroad
	Commission of Texas of a permit for a commercial surface disposal
	facility located near a municipality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 91, Natural Resources
	Code, is amended by adding Section 91.118 to read as follows:
	Sec. 91.118. COMMERCIAL SURFACE DISPOSAL FACILITY
	PROHIBITED NEAR MUNICIPALITY. (a) In this section, "commercial
	surface disposal facility" has the meaning assigned by Section
	91.116.
	(b) The commission may not approve an application for a
	commercial surface disposal facility if any part of the site of the
	facility is located less than five miles from the corporate
	boundaries of a municipality.
	SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
	to an application for a permit that is filed with the Railroad
	Commission of Texas on or after the effective date of this Act. An
	application for a permit filed before the effective date of this Act
	is governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and that law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. 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, 2017.