By Saunders H.B. No. 2043 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the process of the Texas Water Commission. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5.103, Water Code, is amended to read as 1-5 follows: 1-6 Sec. 5.103. Rules. (a) The commission shall adopt any 1-7 rules necessary to carry out its powers and duties under this code 1-8 and other laws of this state. 1-9 (b) The commission shall adopt reasonable procedural rules 1-10 to be followed in a commission hearing. The executive director may 1-11 recommend to the commission for its consideration any rules that he 1-12 considers necessary. 1-13 (c) Rules shall be adopted in the manner provided by the 1-14 Administrative Procedure and Texas Register Act (Article 6252-13a, 1-15 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). As provided by that Act, the 1-16 commission must adopt rules when adopting, repealing or amending 1-17 any agency statement of general applicability that interprets or 1-18 prescribes law or policy, or describes the procedure or practice 1-19 requirements of an agency. The commission shall follow its own 1-20 rules as adopted until it changes them in accordance with that Act. 1-21 SECTION 2. This law shall apply to all rules in existence at 1-22 the time this law becomes effective and to all rules adopted 1-23 thereafter. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 2-7 terms, and it is so enacted.