81R9181 JJT-F
By: Hancock H.B. No. 2895
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to compliance with federal occupational safety and health
standards in environmental enforcement.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 7, Water Code, is amended
by adding Section 7.256 to read as follows:
Sec. 7.256. COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
HEALTH STANDARDS. If a person can establish that an act or event
that otherwise would be a violation of a statute within the
commission's jurisdiction or a rule adopted or an order or permit
issued by the commission under such a statute was caused solely by
compliance with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (29 U.S.C. Section 651 et seq.), the act or event is not a
violation of that statute, rule, order, or permit.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.