By: Jackson S.B. No. 1080
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 general duty clause of the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. Section 654), the act or
event is not a violation of that statute, rule, order, or permit.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.