1-1     By:  Cain                                             S.B. No. 1738
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2001; March 14, 2001, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 23, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 23, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to standards for on-site sewage disposal systems.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subsections (b) and (c), Section 366.032, Health
1-11     and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-12           (b)  If the order or resolution adopts more stringent
1-13     standards for on-site sewage disposal systems than this chapter or
1-14     the commission's standards [and provides greater public health and
1-15     safety protection], the authorized agent's order or resolution
1-16     prevails over this chapter or the standards.
1-17           (c)  An authorized agent that adopts an order or resolution
1-18     with more stringent standards for on-site sewage disposal systems
1-19     must file the [obtain commission approval of substantive amendments
1-20     to the agent's] order or resolution with the commission before
1-21     enactment.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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