88(R) HB 441 - Introduced version - Bill Text

	By:  Lopez of Bexar	H.B.  No.  441

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to providing notice to a state representative and senator
	of an administrative penalty assessed by the Texas Commission on
	Environmental Quality.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION  1.    Section 7.060, Water Code, is amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec.  7.060.    NOTICE OF PENALTY. If the commission is
	required to give notice of a penalty under Section 7.057 or 7.059,
	the commission shall:
	(1)    publish notice of its decision in the Texas
	Register not later than the 10th day after the date on which the
	decision is adopted; and
	(2)    notify the state representative and state senator
	who represent the area where the violation for which the penalty is
	being assessed occurred.
	SECTION  2.    Section 7.075(a), Water Code, is amended to read
	as follows:
	(a)    Before the commission approves an administrative order
	or proposed agreement to settle an administrative enforcement
	action initiated under this subchapter to which the commission is a
	party, the commission shall:
	(1)    allow the public to comment in writing on the
	proposed order or agreement;
	(2)    publish notice  [.  Notice] of the opportunity to
	comment on the proposed order or agreement [shall be published] in
	the Texas Register not later than the 30th day before the date on
	which the public comment period closes; and
	(3)    notify the state representative and state senator
	who represent the area in which the violation that is the subject of
	the proposed order or agreement occurred.
	SECTION  3.    This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.