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| 1 | + | 89R1999 MP-D | |
| 1 | 2 | By: Miles S.B. No. 2386 | |
| 2 | - | (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2025; March 25, 2025, read | |
| 3 | - | first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and | |
| 4 | - | Rural Affairs; April 23, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable | |
| 5 | - | Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; | |
| 6 | - | April 23, 2025, sent to printer.) | |
| 7 | - | Click here to see the committee vote | |
| 8 | - | COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2386 By: Perry | |
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| 13 | 7 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 14 | 8 | AN ACT | |
| 15 | - | relating to | |
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| 9 | + | relating to the provision by the Texas Commission on Environmental | |
| 10 | + | Quality to the pertinent state representative and state senator of | |
| 11 | + | notice of certain administrative actions of the commission. | |
| 18 | 12 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 19 | 13 | SECTION 1. Section 7.060, Water Code, is amended to read as | |
| 20 | 14 | follows: | |
| 21 | - | Sec. 7.060. NOTICE OF PENALTY. | |
| 15 | + | Sec. 7.060. NOTICE OF PENALTY. If the commission is | |
| 22 | 16 | required to give notice of a penalty under Section 7.057 or 7.059, | |
| 23 | 17 | the commission shall: | |
| 24 | 18 | (1) publish notice of its decision in the Texas | |
| 25 | 19 | Register not later than the 10th day after the date on which the | |
| 26 | 20 | decision is adopted; and | |
| 27 | - | (2) if required by Subsection (b), notify the state | |
| 28 | - | representative and state senator who represent the area where the | |
| 29 | - | violation for which the penalty is being assessed occurred. | |
| 30 | - | (b) The commission shall: | |
| 31 | - | (1) affirmatively offer each state representative and | |
| 32 | - | state senator the opportunity to receive notice under Subsection | |
| 33 | - | (a)(2); and | |
| 34 | - | (2) provide appropriate notice to each representative | |
| 35 | - | or senator who elects to receive notice under this section. | |
| 36 | - | SECTION 2. Section 7.075, Water Code, is amended by | |
| 37 | - | amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | |
| 38 | - | follows: | |
| 21 | + | (2) notify the state representative and state senator | |
| 22 | + | who represent the area where the violation for which the penalty is | |
| 23 | + | being assessed occurred. | |
| 24 | + | SECTION 2. Section 7.075(a), Water Code, is amended to read | |
| 25 | + | as follows: | |
| 39 | 26 | (a) Before the commission approves an administrative order | |
| 40 | 27 | or proposed agreement to settle an administrative enforcement | |
| 41 | 28 | action initiated under this subchapter to which the commission is a | |
| 42 | 29 | party, the commission shall: | |
| 43 | 30 | (1) allow the public to comment in writing on the | |
| 44 | 31 | proposed order or agreement; | |
| 45 | 32 | (2) publish notice [. Notice] of the opportunity to | |
| 46 | 33 | comment on the proposed order or agreement [shall be published] in | |
| 47 | 34 | the Texas Register not later than the 30th day before the date on | |
| 48 | 35 | which the public comment period closes; and | |
| 49 | - | (3) if required by Subsection (a-1), notify the state | |
| 50 | - | representative and state senator who represent the area in which | |
| 51 | - | the violation that is the subject of the proposed order or agreement | |
| 52 | - | occurred. | |
| 53 | - | (a-1) The commission shall: | |
| 54 | - | (1) affirmatively offer each state representative and | |
| 55 | - | state senator the opportunity to receive notice under Subsection | |
| 56 | - | (a)(3); and | |
| 57 | - | (2) provide appropriate notice to each representative | |
| 58 | - | or senator who elects to receive notice under this section. | |
| 36 | + | (3) notify the state representative and state senator | |
| 37 | + | who represent the area in which the violation that is the subject of | |
| 38 | + | the proposed order or agreement occurred. | |
| 59 | 39 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | |
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