SB 796

relating to the construction of certain concrete batch plants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 382.051995 to read as follows:
Sec. 382.051995.  EXTENSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE
BATCH PLANT; NOTICE TO STATE SENATOR AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE.  (a)
The executive director may grant a person authorized under a
standard permit issued under Section 382.05195 or Section 382.05198
to construct a concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry
batching, or central mixing only one extension to any deadline to
begin construction of the plant incorporated in the standard
permit. The extension may not exceed 90 days.
(b)  If a person granted an extension described by Subsection
(a) fails to begin construction within the time allotted under the
authorization to use the standard permit or the extension period,
the person must submit a new application for an authorization to use
the standard permit before beginning construction.
(c)  On receiving a request to extend a deadline under
Subsection (a), the executive director shall send notice of the
request to the state senator and representative who represent the
area in which the facility will be located.
SECTION 2.  Not later than September 1, 2026, the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality shall adopt rules necessary to
implement the changes in law made by this Act.
SECTION 3.  Section 382.051995, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to an authorization to use a
standard permit the application for which is filed with the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date
of this Act.  An authorization the application for which is filed
before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect on the date the application was filed, and that law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.