By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2497

(In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2025; April 3, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs; May 14, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 2; May 14, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2497 By: Hancock

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the installation of a filtration system by certain public drinking water supply systems.

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

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 341, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 341.0365 to read as follows:

Sec. 341.0365. FILTRATION SYSTEMS FOR CERTAIN UNDERGROUND SOURCES. The commission by order may require a public drinking water supply system that serves fewer than 100 connections and obtains its water supply from an underground source to install a filtration system for that source if the public water system:

(1) has repeatedly exceeded the maximum contaminant level or secondary constituent level for one or more parameters established by the commission and the United States Environmental Protection Agency;

(2) has been the subject of more than one substantiated water quality complaint submitted to the commission during the preceding 12 months; and

(3) can install at a reasonable cost the filtration system for that source to manage an exceedance of a secondary constituent level, if applicable.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

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