S.B. No. 739




AN ACT

relating to the payment of certain administrative penalties 
assessed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality under an 
installment payment schedule.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 7.052, Water Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(d)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), each day that a 
continuing violation occurs may be considered a separate violation.  
The commission may authorize an installment payment schedule for an 
administrative penalty assessed under this subchapter, except for 
an administrative penalty assessed under Section 7.057 [or assessed 
after a hearing under Section 7.058].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           

                                                                              




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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 739 passed the Senate on 
April 21, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 739 passed the House on 
May 25, 2005, by a non-record vote.




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   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



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          Governor