85R22706 SLB-F
By: Phelan, Fallon H.B. No. 2771
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the elimination of a fee collected for an on-site
wastewater treatment permit application.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 367.010, Health and Safety Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 2. Section 367.007(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commission may accept gifts, grants, and donations
to [from other sources to supplement the fees collected under
Section 367.010. Grants and donations shall] be deposited to the
credit of the water resource management account. Grants [and] may
be disbursed as the commission directs and in accordance with
Section 367.008.
SECTION 3. Section 5.701(p), Water Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(p) Notwithstanding any other law, fees collected for
deposit to the water resource management account under the
following statutes may be appropriated and used to protect water
resources in this state, including assessment of water quality,
reasonably related to the activities of any of the persons required
to pay a fee under:
(1) Subsection (b), to the extent those fees are paid
by water districts, and Subsections (e), (f), and (n); or
(2) Section 54.037(c) [; or
[(3) Section 367.010, Health and Safety Code].
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an application for an on-site wastewater treatment permit received
by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the
effective date of this Act. An application received before the
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
date the application was received, and the former law is continued
in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.