Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 66 amends Water Code provisions relating to water well drillers to eliminate the 90-day residency requirement for licensees and to replace the August 31 license expiration date with a system by which licenses expire annually. The bill repeals and deletes numerous provisions pertaining to administrative penalties, other licensee sanctions, and complaint procedures, which effectively become superseded--except for administrative penalty amounts--by other more general law under the authority of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.