86R12741 JXC-F
By: Menéndez S.B. No. 2062
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the publication of pathogen-related data from river
basins by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 26.0135, Water Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (h-1) to read as follows:
(h-1) Each river authority shall regularly provide to the
commission data from the river authority's watershed and river
basin water quality database that relates to pathogens and pathogen
indicators in the river authority's river basin. The commission
shall publish on the commission's Internet website:
(1) data received under this subsection; and
(2) data related to pathogens and pathogen indicators
in river basins where a river authority is unable to perform an
adequate assessment of its own watershed.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.