By Bosse H.B. No. 1574
76R3893 MXM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the permitting of discharges from certain on-site
1-3 sewage disposal systems in certain counties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended
1-6 by adding Section 26.050 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 26.050. ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. (a) To the
1-8 extent not in conflict with federal law, the commission by rule
1-9 shall authorize the issuance of a permit, under less stringent
1-10 standards, for the discharge of sewage into or adjacent to water in
1-11 this state by an on-site sewage disposal system if:
1-12 (1) the system is in a county with a population of
1-13 2.8 million or more that is an authorized agent under Chapter 366,
1-14 Health and Safety Code;
1-15 (2) the system is on a property that was subdivided
1-16 and developed before January 1, 1979;
1-17 (3) a county order or resolution has authorized the
1-18 discharge; and
1-19 (4) the commission has approved the county order or
1-20 resolution authorizing the discharge.
1-21 (b) For purposes of this section, "on-site sewage disposal
1-22 system" has the meaning assigned by Section 366.002, Health and
1-23 Safety Code.
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.