By: Brown S.B. No. 1300 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the permitting of discharges from certain on-site 1-2 sewage disposal systems in certain counties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 26.050 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 26.050. ON-SITE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM. (a) To the 1-7 extent not in conflict with federal law, the commission by rule 1-8 shall authorize the issuance of a permit by a County for the 1-9 discharge of treated sewage into or adjacent to water in this state 1-10 by an on-site sewage disposal system if: 1-11 (1) the system is in a county with a population of 2.8 1-12 million or more that is an authorized agent under Chapter 366, 1-13 Health and Safety Code; 1-14 (2) the system serves a single-family residence and is 1-15 on a property that was subdivided and developed before January 1, 1-16 1979; and the property is of insufficient size to accommodate 1-17 disposal of all wastewater on site; 1-18 (3) a county order or resolution has authorized the 1-19 discharge; and to the extent possible, the discharge amount is 1-20 limited by all reasonable means and meets the standards as 1-21 established in the order or resolution; and 1-22 (4) the commission has approved the county order or 2-1 resolution authorizing the discharge. 2-2 (b) for purposes of this section, on-site sewage disposal 2-3 system shall mean one or more systems of treatment devices and 2-4 disposal of sewage on or off site except that incidental discharge 2-5 of treated wastewater offsite is authorized. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.