By: Elkins (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 1515
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
Resources & Economic Development; May 17, 2017, reported favorably
by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 3; May 17, 2017, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the expiration of the dry cleaner environmental
response program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 374.253(a), (b), and (c), Health and
Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) This chapter expires on September 1, 2050 [2021].
(b) A corrective action, including any administrative
duties associated with the action, for which remediation of a
contaminated site has begun before September 1, 2050 [2021], shall
be completed in accordance with this chapter using money from the
fund, to the extent possible, but money may not be collected for or
added to the fund on or after that date.
(c) The commission may continue a corrective action that has
not progressed beyond the investigative or planning stage after
September 1, 2050 [2021], to the extent money from the fund is
available.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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