89R16085 ANG-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2497
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the installation of a filtration system by certain
public drinking water supply systems.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 341.036, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The commission by order may require a public drinking
water supply system that obtains its water supply from an
underground source to install a filtration system for the well for
that source if:
(1) the commission has previously recommended that the
public water system install a filtration system for the well for
that source; and
(2) the public water system:
(A) has not maintained the well for that source
in accordance with commission rules; or
(B) has been the subject of more than one
complaint concerning that source submitted to the commission during
the previous year.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.