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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