By: Perry S.B. No. 565
(In the Senate - Filed December 11, 2024; February 3, 2025,
read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and
Rural Affairs; February 25, 2025, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; February 25, 2025, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a compliance agreement for the suspension of an
enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer,
wastewater treatment, or solid waste disposal service for certain
violations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 7.0026(b) and (c), Water Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) If a water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid
waste disposal service operated by or for a municipality, [or]
county, regional service area, or unincorporated service area is
being integrated into a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater
treatment, or solid waste disposal service administered by another
entity, including a retail public utility, the commission may enter
into a compliance agreement with the regional service under which
the commission will not initiate an enforcement action against the
regional service for existing or anticipated violations resulting
from the operation by the regional service of the service being
integrated. A compliance agreement under this section must
include provisions necessary to bring the service being integrated
into compliance.
(c) If a water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment
service operated by a retail public utility, other than a
municipality or county, is being integrated into a regional water
supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service administered by
another entity, including a separate retail public utility, the
commission may enter into a compliance agreement with the regional
service under which the commission will not initiate an enforcement
action against the regional service for existing or anticipated
violations resulting from the operation by the regional service of
the service being integrated. A compliance agreement under this
section must include provisions necessary to bring the service
being integrated into compliance.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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