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HB3333 • 2025

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Morales, Eddie
Last action
2025-06-20
Official status
06/20/2025 E Effective on 9/1/25
Effective date
2025-06-20

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

What This Bill Does

  • Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed without the Governor's signature

  2. 2025-06-20 Texas Legislature Online

    Effective on 9/1/25

  3. 2025-06-02 Texas Legislature Online

    Sent to the Governor

  4. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the House

  5. 2025-06-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Signed in the Senate

  6. 2025-05-31 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported enrolled

  7. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)

  8. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#4084

  9. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  10. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    Text of Senate Amendment(s)

  11. 2025-05-30 Texas Legislature Online

    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported

  12. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate passage as amended reported

  13. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments distributed

  14. 2025-05-29 Texas Legislature Online

    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed

  15. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on local & uncontested calendar

  16. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Laid before the Senate

  17. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time & passed to 3rd reading

  18. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote recorded in Journal

  19. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Three day rule suspended

  20. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  21. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  22. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  23. 2025-05-28 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote

  24. 2025-05-26 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on intent calendar

  25. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  26. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  27. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken in committee

  28. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Vote taken in committee

  29. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  30. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar

  31. 2025-05-23 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report printed and distributed

  32. 2025-05-22 Texas Legislature Online

    Posting rule suspended

  33. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  34. 2025-05-16 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

  35. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 3rd time

  36. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed

  37. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2688

  38. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  39. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported engrossed

  40. 2025-05-15 Texas Legislature Online

    Received from the House

  41. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Read 2nd time

  42. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Passed to engrossment

  43. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Record vote. RV#2585

  44. 2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online

    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal

  45. 2025-05-11 Texas Legislature Online

    Placed on General State Calendar

  46. 2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in Calendars

  47. 2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report sent to Calendars

  48. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator

  49. 2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee report distributed

  50. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  51. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  52. 2025-05-01 Texas Legislature Online

    Reported favorably as substituted

  53. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .

  54. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Considered in public hearing

  55. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Committee substitute considered in committee

  56. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee

  57. 2025-04-24 Texas Legislature Online

    Left pending in committee

  58. 2025-03-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Read first time

  59. 2025-03-21 Texas Legislature Online

    Referred to Environmental Regulation

  60. 2025-02-25 Texas Legislature Online

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and drainage areas.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
89(R) HB 3333 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.B. No. 3333

AN ACT

relating to a restriction on permits authorizing direct discharges

of waste or pollutants into water in certain river segments and

drainage areas.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Water Code, is amended

by adding Section 26.0275 to read as follows:

Sec.

26.0275.

RESTRICTION ON PERMITS FOR DISCHARGES INTO

CERTAIN SEGMENTS AND DRAINAGE AREAS. (a) In this section:

(1)

"Classified segment" means any portion of Devils

River located in Val Verde County and identified in Appendices A and

C of 30 T.A.C. Section 307.10 as it existed on September 1, 2025.

(2)

"Unclassified water body" means a water body other

than a classified segment.

(b)

Except as provided by Subsection (c), the commission may

not issue a new permit authorizing the direct discharge from a

domestic or industrial wastewater treatment facility of any waste,

effluent, or pollutants into a classified segment or an

unclassified water body in Val Verde County that drains into a

classified segment.

(c)

This section does not affect the authority of the

commission to issue:

(1)

an individual or general permit for a municipal

separate storm sewer system; or

(2)

a general permit for stormwater and associated

non-stormwater discharges.

SECTION 2. The change in law made 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, 2025.

______________________________

______________________________

President of the Senate

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3333 was passed by the House on May

15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 113, Nays 26, 2 present, not

voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.

No. 3333 on May 30, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 99, Nays 37,

2 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3333 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays

2.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

__________________

Governor