By: Phelan H.B. No. 2771
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the wastewater treatment permit application;
  eliminating a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 367.010, Health and Safety Code, is
  repealed.
         SECTION 2.  Section 367.007(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The commission may accept grants and donations to [from
  other sources to supplement the fees collected under Section
  367.010. Grants and donations shall] be deposited to the credit of
  the water resource management account.  Gifts and grants [and] may
  be disbursed as the commission directs and in accordance with
  Section 367.008.
         SECTION 3.  Section 5.701(p), Water Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (p)  Notwithstanding any other law, fees collected for
  deposit to the water resource management account under the
  following statutes may be appropriated and used to protect water
  resources in this state, including assessment of water quality,
  reasonably related to the activities of any of the persons required
  to pay a fee under:
               (1)  Subsection (b), to the extent those fees are paid
  by water districts, and Subsections (e), (f), and (n); or
               (2)  Section 54.037(c) [; or
               [(3)  Section 367.010, Health and Safety Code].
         SECTION 4. 
   The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  an application for an on-site wastewater treatment permit received
  by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the
  effective date of this Act. An application received before the
  effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
  date the application was received, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 5.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.