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          By Eckels                                             H.B. No. 1021
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to application to the Texas Water Commission for a waste
    1-3  discharge permit.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 26.027(b), Water Code (effective until
    1-6  delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (b)  A person desiring to obtain a permit or to amend a
    1-9  permit shall submit an application to the commission containing all
   1-10  information reasonably required by the commission.  The commission
   1-11  shall require an applicant who is an individual to provide:
   1-12              (1)  the individual's full legal name and date of
   1-13  birth;
   1-14              (2)  the street address of the individual's place of
   1-15  residence;
   1-16              (3)  the identifying number from the individual's
   1-17  driver's license or personal identification certificate issued by
   1-18  the state or country in which the individual resides;
   1-19              (4)  the individual's sex; and
   1-20              (5)  any assumed business or professional name of the
   1-21  individual filed under Chapter 36, Business & Commerce Code.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Section 26.027(b), Water Code (effective on
   1-23  delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
   1-24  follows:
    2-1        (b)  A person desiring to obtain a permit or to amend a
    2-2  permit shall submit an application to the commission containing all
    2-3  information reasonably required by the commission.  The commission
    2-4  shall require an applicant who is an individual to provide:
    2-5              (1)  the individual's full legal name and date of
    2-6  birth;
    2-7              (2)  the street address of the individual's place of
    2-8  residence;
    2-9              (3)  the identifying number from the individual's
   2-10  driver's license or personal identification certificate issued by
   2-11  the state or country in which the individual resides;
   2-12              (4)  the individual's sex; and
   2-13              (5)  any assumed business or professional name of the
   2-14  individual filed under Chapter 36, Business & Commerce Code.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
   2-16  an application submitted on or after the effective date of this
   2-17  Act.
   2-18        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-19        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-21  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   2-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   2-24                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   2-25        Amend HB 1021 on page 1, line 11, between the word "shall"
   2-26  and the word "require", add the following:
   2-27  ", at minimum,"
    3-1        Amend HB 1021 on page 2, line 4, between the word "shall" and
    3-2  the word "require", add the following:
    3-3  ", at minimum,"
    3-4                                                             Hochberg