H.B. No. 2529




AN ACT

relating to enforcement actions against a small water supply, 
sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid waste disposal service being 
integrated into a regional service.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 7, Water Code, is amended 
by adding Section 7.0026 to read as follows:
	Sec. 7.0026.  SUSPENSION OF ENFORCEMENT ACTION AGAINST 
CERTAIN REGIONAL WATER, SEWER, OR SOLID WASTE SERVICES.  If a water 
supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid waste disposal 
service operated by or for a municipality or county is being 
integrated into a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater 
treatment, or solid waste disposal service, the commission may 
enter into a compliance agreement with the regional service under 
which the commission will not initiate an enforcement action 
against the regional service for existing or anticipated violations 
resulting from the operation by the regional service of the service 
being integrated.  A compliance agreement under this section must 
include provisions necessary to bring the service being integrated 
into compliance.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 2529 was passed by the House on May 
10, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. 
No. 2529 on May 28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 135, Nays 0, 
2 present, not voting.

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                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	
I certify that H.B. No. 2529 was passed by the Senate, with 
amendments, on May 26, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 
0.

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                                                      Secretary of the Senate   



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              Governor