By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1662
(In the Senate - Filed February 26, 2025; March 11, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and
Rural Affairs; April 7, 2025, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 7, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to notice provided to certain public drinking water supply
systems before water quality testing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 341, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 341.0317 to read as follows:
Sec. 341.0317. NOTICE OF WATER QUALITY TESTING. The
commission may provide notice not more than 24 hours in advance to a
public drinking water supply system that obtains its water supply
from underground sources of the commission's intent to perform
water quality testing to investigate a complaint related to the
public drinking water supply system's water quality.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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