By:  Junell                                           H.B. No. 1612
       73R4905 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to processing a claim for payment from the petroleum
    1-3  storage tank remediation fund.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 26.3573, Water Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subsection (p) to read as follows:
    1-7        (p)  The commission shall contract with a person to process
    1-8  or assist in the review of a claim for payment from the petroleum
    1-9  storage tank remediation fund.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-11  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-13  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-14  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-15  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-16  passage, and it is so enacted.