Senate Bill 594
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al.
Effective: 9-1-23
House Sponsor: Lozano et al.
Senate Bill 594 amends the Health and Safety Code and Water Code to require a drinking water supply provided by a public drinking water supply system to provide a quantity of water or capacity of water sufficient to serve the number of connections served by the system. The bill requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality by rule to establish connection equivalency values for each meter size used to serve an applicable recreational vehicle park for use in determining the number of connections served by a system that provides service through meters. The bill requires an applicable retail public utility providing water or sewer service to such a park to ensure that billing for the service is based on actual water usage recorded by the utility and prohibits the utility from imposing a surcharge based on the number of recreational vehicle or cabin sites in the park.