81R11919 JJT-F
 
  By: Hancock H.B. No. 2895
 
  Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2895:
 
  By:  Hancock C.S.H.B. No. 2895
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to compliance with federal occupational safety and health
  standards in environmental enforcement.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 7, Water Code, is amended
  by adding Section 7.256 to read as follows:
         Sec. 7.256.  COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND
  HEALTH STANDARDS. If a person can establish that an act or event
  that otherwise would be a violation of a statute within the
  commission's jurisdiction or a rule adopted or an order or permit
  issued by the commission under such a statute was caused solely by
  compliance with the general duty clause of the federal Occupational
  Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. Section 654), the act or
  event is not a violation of that statute, rule, order, or permit.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.