By: Brown of Kaufman (Senate Sponsor - Deuell) H.B. No. 2018

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007; April 19, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; May 3, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 3, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to eligibility for a municipal setting designation related to potential impacts to groundwater quality of solid waste activities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 361.803, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 361.803. ELIGIBILITY FOR A MUNICIPAL SETTING DESIGNATION. A person, including a local government, may submit a request to the executive director for a municipal setting designation for property if:

(1) the property is within the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality authorized by statute [that has a population of at least 20,000]; and

(2) a public drinking water supply system exists that satisfies the requirements of Chapter 341 and that supplies or is capable of supplying drinking water to:

(A) the property for which designation is sought; and

(B) property within one-half mile of the property for which designation is sought.

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, 2007.

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