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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Water Code § 5.126: REPORT ON ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS.

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  1. WATER CODE
  2. TITLE 2. WATER ADMINISTRATION
  3. SUBTITLE A. EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
  4. CHAPTER 5. TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
  5. SUBCHAPTER D. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COMMISSION

(a) Not later than December 1 of each year, the commission shall:

(1) prepare an electronic report on its enforcement actions for the preceding fiscal year, including a comparison with its enforcement actions for each of the preceding five fiscal years; and

(2) provide the report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives.

(b) The report shall separately describe the enforcement actions for each type of regulatory program, including programs under Chapters 26 and 27 of this code and Chapters 361, 382, and 401, Health and Safety Code.

(c) The description of enforcement actions for each type of regulatory program shall include:

(1) the number of inspections;

(2) the number of notices of violations;

(3) the number of enforcement actions;

(4) the type of enforcement actions;

(5) the amount of penalties assessed, deferred, or collected; and

(6) any other information the commission determines relevant.

(d) As soon as possible after the end of each fiscal year, the attorney general shall provide the commission information on enforcement actions referred by the commission to the attorney general that were resolved during the preceding fiscal year or are pending at the end of that fiscal year.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 304, Sec. 1, eff. May 26, 1997; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1082, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Sec. 5.123 by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 21.001(112), eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:48Z. Source file · JSON

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