88R1998 KBB-D
 
  By: Rogers H.B. No. 696
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the notification of a landowner by a notification
  center of a planned excavation.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 251.153(c), Utilities Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (c)  Not later than two hours after the time the notification
  center receives a notice of intent to excavate from an excavator or
  from a different notification center, the notification center shall
  notify:
               (1)  each member operator that may have an underground
  facility in the vicinity of the proposed excavation operation; and
               (2)  each owner of land in the proposed area of
  excavation.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.