TITLE: Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment facilities.

SUMMARY: Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment facilities.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the permitting of wastewater treatment facilities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 26.028, Water Code, is amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: (i) The commission shall hold at least one public meeting on an application for an initial permit for a wastewater treatment facility in the county in which the facility is proposed to be located. SECTION 2. Section 26.028(i), Water Code, as added by this Act, applies only to an application for a permit that is submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. An application for a permit that was submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the application was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.