bill making TCEQ tell local legislators about penalty cases

The text as introduced · 284 words

89R1999 MP-D

By: Lopez of Bexar
H.B. No. 482

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the provision by the Texas Commission on Environmental

Quality to the pertinent state representative and state senator of

notice of certain administrative actions of the commission.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 7.060, Water Code, is amended to read as

follows:

Sec. 7.060. NOTICE OF PENALTY. If the commission is

required to give notice of a penalty under Section 7.057 or 7.059,

the commission shall :

(1) publish notice of its decision in the Texas

Register not later than the 10th day after the date on which the

decision is adopted ; and

(2) notify the state representative and state senator

who represent the area where the violation for which the penalty is

being assessed occurred .

SECTION 2. Section 7.075(a), Water Code, is amended to read

as follows:

(a) Before the commission approves an administrative order

or proposed agreement to settle an administrative enforcement

action initiated under this subchapter to which the commission is a

party, the commission shall :

(1) allow the public to comment in writing on the

proposed order or agreement ;

(2) publish notice [ . Notice ] of the opportunity to

comment on the proposed order or agreement [ shall be published ] in

the Texas Register not later than the 30th day before the date on

which the public comment period closes ; and

(3) notify the state representative and state senator

who represent the area in which the violation that is the subject of

the proposed order or agreement occurred .

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.