73R4333 JJT-D
          By Maxey                                               H.B. No. 346
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of greywater.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 26.0311(a), Water Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  In this section, "greywater" means wastewater from
    1-7  clothes washing machines, showers, bathtubs, handwashing
    1-8  lavatories,  and sinks that are not used for <food preparation or>
    1-9  disposal of hazardous or toxic <chemical and biological>
   1-10  ingredients.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 341.039, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-12  amended to read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 341.039.  GRAYWATER STANDARDS.  (a)  The board and the
   1-14  Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners by rule shall adopt and
   1-15  implement minimum standards for  the use and reuse of graywater in
   1-16  irrigation and for other agricultural, domestic, commercial, and
   1-17  industrial purposes to assure that the use of graywater is not a
   1-18  nuisance and does not damage the quality of surface water and
   1-19  groundwater in this state.
   1-20        (b)  In this section, "graywater" means wastewater from
   1-21  clothes-washing machines, showers, bathtubs, hand-washing
   1-22  lavatories,  and sinks that are not used for <food preparation or>
   1-23  disposal of hazardous or toxic <chemical and biological>
   1-24  ingredients.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.