84R4298 JTS-D
By: Perry S.B. No. 394
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of supplemental environmental projects by a
local government to come into compliance with environmental laws or
remediate environmental harm caused by the local government.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 7.067(a-1), Water Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a-1) For a respondent that is a local government, the [The]
commission:
(1) may approve a supplemental environmental project
that is necessary to bring the [a] respondent into compliance with
environmental laws or that is necessary to remediate environmental
harm caused by the local government's [respondent's] alleged
violation; and
(2) shall approve a supplemental environmental
project described by Subdivision (1) if the local government has
not previously committed the same violation [if the respondent is a
local government].
SECTION 2. 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, 2015.