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Water Environment Association of the ! Texas the 86 the to Welcome , WEAT|TAWCA Executive Director , WEAT Elect President th Nathan Vassar Session of of Session Legislative Legislative MarchWebcast, 20, 2019 , WEAT Government WEAT , Government Co-Chair Affairs Water Environment Association of Texas • • • Day 64 of 140 the and Feeling Love the Welcome to 86 Speaker the of House Bonnen Lt Governor DanPatrick Governor AbbottGreg • • • • • • Committee Assignments Committee Rules House Interim Reports House Assignments Committee Rules Senate Reports Interim Senate th Texas Legislature: Legislature: Texas Water Environment Association of Texas • • • • Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Property Taxes Mental Health Finance, School Teacher School Pay, Safety Priority IssuesPriority 86 tothe Welcome th Texas Legislature:Texas Water Environment Association of Texas Members: Chair: Vice Chair: Position House Natural Resources Committee Faces Familiar New and Welcome to the 86 Rep. Ana-Maria Ramos Ana-Maria Rep. Price Four Rep. Rep. Nevárez Poncho Rep. Mike Lang Rep. O. King Tracy Rep. Harris Cody Rep. Farrar Jessica Rep. Dominguez Alex Rep. Metcalf Will Rep. Lyle LarsonRep. Member th Texas Legislature: Date: Appointment 2019 - Legislature: (C390) Resources Naturalon House Committee 1/23/2019 86(R) Room: 0802 Phone: Clerk: Shannon EXTE2.104 (512) (512) 463- Water Environment Association of Texas Members: Vice Chair: Chair: Position House Environmental Regulation Committee Faces and Familiar New Welcome to the 86 Rep. Erin Rep. Zwiener Turner JohnRep. RonRep. Reynolds Morrison W. GeanieRep. Kuempel JohnRep. J.Kyle Rep. Kacal César Rep. Blanco EdRep.Thompson M. J. Rep. Lozano Member th Texas Legislature: Date: Appointment 2019 86(R)- Legislature: (C260) Regulation Environmentalon House Committee 1/23/2019 Room: 463-0776 (512) Phone: Crownover Clerk: Scott EXTE2.154 Water Environment Association of Texas Members: Vice Chair: Chair: Position Senate Water andRural Affairs Committee New New andFamiliar Faces Welcome the to 86 Sen. Larry Taylor Sen. Larry Sen. José R. Rodríguez Sen. Lois W. Kolkhorst Sen. Johnson Nathan Sen. Carol Alvarado Sen.Creighton Brandon Sen. CharlesPerry Member th Texas Legislature: Date: Appointment 2019 R)- Legislature: Affairs (C700) Water & Rural Committeeon Senate 1/9/2019 86( Room: 463-0340 (512) Phone: Curren Clerk: Leah SHB SHB 335 Water Environment Association of Texas Flood Planning Bills Planning and Funding Flood Welcome the to 86 th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas SB 8 (Perry)SB 8 Flood Planning Planning and Funding Flood Welcome the to 86 • Soil & Water Conservation Plan Board Dam Conservation & Water Soil • of projects ranking Requires • level at regional membership Broad • 2023 by Jan basins river along planning Regional • due by2024 Sept plan State • are co-authors Senators other all • – Lead Senate Bill Senate Lead for Flood Planning – th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas Flood Planning andPlanning Funding Flood Welcome theto 86 SB 500 (Nelson) – FY 2019 Supplemental Supplemental 2019 Appropriations FY – SB 500 (Nelson) SB (Creighton) 7 SJR 28 (Perry) – Voter Approved in Voter Transfer 2019 Nov – SJR 28 (Perry) • $1.6 billion transfer from Rainy Day Fund Fund more plus Day Rainy from transfer billion $1.6 • fund this within accounts 4 • Fund” “Infrastructure Resiliency Creates • co-authors Senators are other Perryand 12 • • $1.2 billion transfer from Rainy Day Fund Fund “State to Day Flood Rainy from transfer billion $1.2 • Implementation Fund” Implementation th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas HB 13 (Phelan) & HJR 4 (Phelan)/SJR 51 (Phelan)/SJR (Phelan) (Hinojosa) & HJRHB 4 13 andPlanning Funding Flood Welcome theto 86 SB 1521 (Hinojosa) (Hinojosa) SB 1521 • TWDB serves as flood information clearinghouse information TWDB as flood serves • plan maintenance dam TWDB to develop • planning in flood participate may authorities River • authority” of “river definition Includes • bydue Sept 2024 plan State • by TWDB Infrastructure administered Fund Flood Creates • with $3.26 billion from Rainy Day Fund from Day Rainy billion with $3.26 th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas suspension for disasters suspension (Morrison) HB 7 & planning projects disaster assistance federal (Morrison) HB 6 recovery to disaster impediments (Phelan) HB 5 entities by TDEM for local developed (Kolkhorst) SB 6 Disaster Planning Disaster Welcome theto 86 – Disaster guide and study of local of study local and guide Disaster – – Contract support and rules rules Contract support and – for Task Recovery Force Disaster – – Disaster response guide to to be guide response Disaster – th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas disaster communication system instatea of emergency (Martinez) HB 91 Management developto statewide alert system (Reymond)HB 34 notifying people of damreleases (Metcalf)HB 26 Dam, and Flood,Disaster Alert/Preparedness Welcome to the 86 Creation of analert system – TX Division Emergencyof – Disaster identification and – th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas penalties to $5,000 up penalties (Wray)HB 1267 (Birdwell) 530 /SB (Huberty)HB 1671 permits well (Dutton) HB 944 of Edwards portion (Flores) 655 (King)/SB HB 817 Water Water Quality Welcome theto 86 – Signage requirements for wastewater and injection injection and for wastewater requirements Signage – Water areas of protection certain quality – th Texas Legislature: – Discharge bans for Nueces River River for Nueces bans Discharge – – Raises water body pollution pollution water body Raises – Water Environment Association of Texas for compliance violators compliance for (Zwiener) HB 3035 authorities. local to permitting delegates and 10,000GPD to 5,000 from system (Zaffirini) 1498 SB (Reynolds)/ HB 2426 limit. term loan year 20 remove and eligibility SRF (Johnson) SB 942 (Metcalf)/ HB 2023 to Comptroller state from General Attorney contracts (Creighton) 970 SB (Leach)/ HB 2003 Water Water Quality Welcome theto 86 – Amends TCEQ penalty assessment assessment Amends penalty TCEQ – th Texas Legislature: – Would shift approval authority of PE PE of authority Would approval shift – – Broadens provisions of Clean WaterClean of provisions Broadens – – Increases size of on-site septic septic of on-site size Increases – Water Environment Association of Texas that the permit holder causes a discharge that damages the environment the environment damages that discharge a causes permit the holder that for program in event the the to account pay into TPDESholders permit HB 4116 (Zwiener) officials” (Birdwell) SB 1994 apply exemptions spill Existing 24 than hours. later and no as possible as soon occurred or discharge the spill which in judge county (Paul) (Taylor)SB 2394 / HB 3805 Spill Reporting andReporting Remediation Spill Welcome theto 86 – – Requires spill to be reported to “local government government to to “local be reported spill Requires – Requires and Requires account escrow an TCEQ establish th Texas Legislature: – Requires spills to be reported to reported to be spills Requires Water Environment Association of Texas waste permit applicants and organizations within 2 miles 2 within organizations and applicants permit waste (Miles) 1249 SB (Allen)/ HB 523 waste trap grease and grit (Menendez) 2070 SB (Morrison)/ HB 3930 sites B Class and sites septage domestic for by inspectors be collected to unit application land for samples (Burns) HB 3319 B of Class that like treatment reduction vector and pathogen and authorization than rather permit including B of Class those (Burns) HB 3318 Biosolids and Domestic andDomestic Septage Biosolids Welcome theto 86 – Defines domestic septage and requires soil monitoring monitoring soil requires and septage domestic Defines – – Creates permit requirements for domestic septage like like septage domestic for requirements permit Creates th Texas Legislature: – Extends notice area to 1 mile for solid solid formile to 1 area notice Extends – – Prohibits land application of of application land Prohibits – Water Environment Association of Texas – reads as a chain of custody of custody bill reads chain as a – (Darby)HB 3246 for program rules to adopt set RRC requires water and produced (Ashby)HB 3067 back to RRCof permitting delegation water under for produced permits TPDESsends then discharge program (Lozano) / HB(Hughes) 2771 SB1585 extraction. for credits and mineral facility freshwater at desal for producing credits gets permit holder Facility facilities. desal certain (Guillen) HB 2545 Produced Water and Discharge Produced Permits Water Welcome theto 86 – Relates to treating produced water for beneficial use for beneficial water produced to treating Relates – – Changes tax code to incentivize desal of salty of salty desal tax to incentivize code Changes – – Amends tax code to provide tax incentives to incentives tax tax to code provide Amends th Texas Legislature: – Allows Allows TCEQ to issue – Water Environment Association of Texas the RRC’s regulatory structure the rules RRC’s structure and regulatory reviewing with is tasked which committee task force advisory environmental (Herrero) HB 4380 and the treatment incentivizing program water ASR of produced (Dominguez) / (Hinojosa) HBSB 3717 1999 for the plan facility abatement Edwards to to Zone submit Recharge Aquifer pollution water TCEQ a (Zwiener) HB 3320 Produced Water and Discharge Produced Permits Water Welcome theto 86 – creates an creates – – Requires O&G companies located the over located O&G companies Requires th Texas Legislature: – creates a credit tax creates – Getty images Water Environment Association of Texas desalination desalination projects participation state account for ASR and HB (Larson) 1052 designations deadline ExtendedTWDB for brackish zone HB (Larson)/SB 1617 (Taylor)1041 desalination projects HB 845 (Lozano) Transfers of brackish treatedgroundwater HB 724 (Larson)/SB (Alvarado)1836 rules HB 722 (Larson) Storage and Recovery (ASR) Brackish Groundwater, Desalination and Aquifer Welcome theto 86 - Propertytax breaks for – – Allows TWDB to Allows TWDB use – Brackish Brackish production zone th Texas Legislature: – – HB HB (Zwiener)/ 1044 483 SB (Campbell) – HB (Larson) 1052 HB (Kuempel)/481 SB 520 (Campbell) HB (Larson) 721 HB (Larson) 720 Buda bill Buda bill projects oversections of the Edwards Aquifer – Expandstypesof injection permits well forASR desalination facilities Participation account to be used fund toASR or a ofportion the Edwards Aquifer Relating the to storage and recoverywaterofin on ASR to TWDB conduct studies and of submit reports water foruse ASR in projects – Relating Relating the toduty the of – Relating appropriations to of – – Allows TWDB State Allows TWDB – – Water Environment Association of Texas sections sections of Chapter 36, Water Code relating to limiting rules at time of permit HB 726 (Larson) Groundwater HB 4570 HB 4570 (Larson for certain surface water rights amendments HB 1964 (Ashby) Surface Water HB 2123 (Harris) SB 1010 (Perry) Trinity aquifers by Sept 2020 HB 1594 (Shine) Groundwater & & GroundwaterSurfaceWater Welcome theto 86 – TWDB TWDB to update groundwater availability models for Edwards and – - ) – Omnibus Omnibus groundwater thatbill amends and repeals multiple – – – Exemptions Exemptions of notice and hearing requirements – Study of groundwater/surface water interaction – Similar Similar rules for GCDs over same aquifer Petition Petition process to change GCD rules th Texas Legislature: Water Environment Association of Texas reuse reuse any form of wastewater at a county facility HB 3560 (Farrar) changes to drought response water usage stage per Drought Contingency Plan SB 900 (Hinojosa) Plan requirements for TWDB funding SB 2331 (Creighton)/HB 3339 (Dominguez) restrictions to receive financial assistance from TWDB HB 2957 (Zwiener)/ SB 1379 (Rodriguez) conservation technology HB 2880 (Zweiner) public awareness program HB 2031 (Turner) Conservation & Reuse Conservation Welcome theto 86 – Authorizes Authorizes Harris County to implement a pilot program to – – TWDB TWDB to create statewide water conservation – – 5 5 daydeadline for water supplier to notify TCEQ of – Studyof state and local building codes that may hinder – th Texas Legislature: – Requires Requires time of daywatering – – Expanded Expanded Water Conservation – Water Environment Association of Texas impact of Harvey and overall workforce shortages workforce overall and of Harvey impact from resulting needs workforce immediate to address program grant (Alvarado)SB 1576 for interest veterans for career groups program pilot implement (Menendez) SB 1539 at training for technical College Community Alamo (Menendez) SB 1538 training workforce for Fund Development access to Skills schools and charter districts (Campbell) (Thierry)/SB1724 HB &1472 HB 1469 Workforce Workforce Development Welcome theto 86 – Creates TX industrial workforce apprenticeship Creates apprenticeship workforce TX industrial – – Creates veterans career mentoring pilot program pilot mentoring career veterans Creates – th – Requires Requires to Community College Alamo – Texas Legislature: – Gives school school Gives Water Environment Association of Texas contracted administrative judges law administrative contracted HB 3114 (Kacal) waste, air) solid wells, after (wastewater,SOAH referrals applications permit changing injection (Collier) 1006 (Zaffirini) & HBSB 1990 for wastewater,person” permit protests waste solid and well injection 573 (Miles) (Dutton)/SB HB 654 Contested Contested Cases Welcome theto 86 – Moves SOAH hearing process to process SOAH Moves hearing TCEQ with – th Texas Legislature: – Expands definition of “affecteddefinition Expands – (Similar bills) time limits for time limits bills) (Similar – Water Environment Association of Texas • • • • • • • • Other Key Themes Welcome theto 86 FOOTBALL! Utilityratesaffordability and Leadline replacements CCNreleases Excavationand right of wayissues Eminent domain Public notice and transparency Cybersecurity th Texas Legislature: Julie Nahrgang Julie Cooke Heather

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