TITLE: Relating to the installation of a treatment system by certain public drinking water supply systems.

SUMMARY: Relating to the installation of a treatment system by certain public drinking water supply systems.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to the installation of a treatment 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. TREATMENT 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 treatment system, which may include 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; (2) has been the subject of more than one substantiated water quality complaint submitted to the commission, not including a complaint submitted to the commission regarding water quality issues associated with the distribution system that are not related to water quality issues from the underground source, during the preceding 12 months for which the commission has determined a need to install additional treatment measures, including requiring the public water system to install a filtration system; and (3) can install at a reasonable cost the treatment system for that source to manage an exceedance of a secondary constituent level, if applicable. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.