1-1 By: Eckels (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 1021
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; May 3, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to application to the Texas Water Commission for a waste
1-22 discharge permit.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 26.027(b), Water Code (effective until
1-25 delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
1-26 follows:
1-27 (b) A person desiring to obtain a permit or to amend a
1-28 permit shall submit an application to the commission containing all
1-29 information reasonably required by the commission. The commission
1-30 shall, at minimum, require an applicant who is an individual to
1-31 provide:
1-32 (1) the individual's full legal name and date of
1-33 birth;
1-34 (2) the street address of the individual's place of
1-35 residence;
1-36 (3) the identifying number from the individual's
1-37 driver's license or personal identification certificate issued by
1-38 the state or country in which the individual resides;
1-39 (4) the individual's sex; and
1-40 (5) any assumed business or professional name of the
1-41 individual filed under Chapter 36, Business & Commerce Code.
1-42 SECTION 2. Section 26.027(b), Water Code (effective on
1-43 delegation of NPDES permit authority), is amended to read as
1-44 follows:
1-45 (b) A person desiring to obtain a permit or to amend a
1-46 permit shall submit an application to the commission containing all
1-47 information reasonably required by the commission. The commission
1-48 shall, at minimum, require an applicant who is an individual to
1-49 provide:
1-50 (1) the individual's full legal name and date of
1-51 birth;
1-52 (2) the street address of the individual's place of
1-53 residence;
1-54 (3) the identifying number from the individual's
1-55 driver's license or personal identification certificate issued by
1-56 the state or country in which the individual resides;
1-57 (4) the individual's sex; and
1-58 (5) any assumed business or professional name of the
1-59 individual filed under Chapter 36, Business & Commerce Code.
1-60 SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
1-61 an application submitted on or after the effective date of this
1-62 Act.
1-63 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-64 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-65 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-66 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-67 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-68 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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2-2 Austin,
2-3 Texas
2-4 May 3, 1993
2-5 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-6 President of the Senate
2-7 Sir:
2-8 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
2-9 No. 1021, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-10 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-11 that it do pass and be printed.
2-12 Sims,
2-13 Chairman
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2-15 WITNESSES
2-16 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1021.