By Bosse                                              H.B. No. 1574
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                                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.