By: Cain S.B. No. 1738
2001S0392/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to standards for on-site sewage disposal systems.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 366.032, Health
1-5 and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) If the order or resolution adopts more stringent
1-7 standards for on-site sewage disposal systems than this chapter or
1-8 the commission's standards [and provides greater public health and
1-9 safety protection], the authorized agent's order or resolution
1-10 prevails over this chapter or the standards.
1-11 (c) An authorized agent that adopts an order or resolution
1-12 with more stringent standards for on-site sewage disposal systems
1-13 must file the [obtain commission approval of substantive amendments
1-14 to the agent's] order or resolution with the commission before
1-15 enactment.
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.