Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2388 amends the Water Code to require rules developed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for submetered or allocated water bills to allow an apartment owner or manager to charge a tenant a fee for late payment of a submetered water bill if the amount of the fee does not exceed five percent of the bill paid late. The bill authorizes the commission to allow a building owner to use certain submetering equipment in a building plumbing system and requires the commission to encourage submetering of individual units by building owners as well as by master meter operators.