By: Elkins (Senate Sponsor - Estes) H.B. No. 1515
         (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2017;
  May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
  Resources & Economic Development; May 17, 2017, reported favorably
  by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 3; May 17, 2017, sent to
  printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the expiration of the dry cleaner environmental
  response program.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 374.253(a), (b), and (c), Health and
  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  This chapter expires on September 1, 2050 [2021].
         (b)  A corrective action, including any administrative
  duties associated with the action, for which remediation of a
  contaminated site has begun before September 1, 2050 [2021], shall
  be completed in accordance with this chapter using money from the
  fund, to the extent possible, but money may not be collected for or
  added to the fund on or after that date.
         (c)  The commission may continue a corrective action that has
  not progressed beyond the investigative or planning stage after
  September 1, 2050 [2021], to the extent money from the fund is
  available.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
 
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