By: Blanco H.B. No. 4588
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to mailed notice of certain environmental permits.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 5.552, Water Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) For any notice required by mail for a permit or permit
amendment issued under Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
Code, or Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, if the
elementary or middle school nearest to the facility or proposed
facility provides a bilingual education program as required by
Subchapter B, Chapter 29, Education Code, the notice must be
written in English and in the language taught in the bilingual
education program.
SECTION 2. Section 5.553, Water Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (d-1) to read as follows:
(d-1) For any notice required by mail for a permit or permit
amendment issued under Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
Code, or Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, if the
elementary or middle school nearest to the facility or proposed
facility provides a bilingual education program as required by
Subchapter B, Chapter 29, Education Code, the notice must be
written in English and in the language taught in the bilingual
education program.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a permit application that is filed with the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act.
A
permit application filed before the effective date of this Act is
governed by the law in effect on the date of filing, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.