By:  Sims                                              S.B. No. 469
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the composition and staffing of the Texas Groundwater
    1-2  Protection Committee.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsections (c) and (d), Section 26.403, Water
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  The committee is composed of:
    1-7              (1)  the executive director of the commission;
    1-8              (2)  the executive administrator of the Texas Water
    1-9  Development Board;
   1-10              (3)  the executive director of the Railroad Commission
   1-11  of Texas;
   1-12              (4)  the commissioner of health of the Texas Department
   1-13  of Health;
   1-14              (5)  the deputy commissioner of the Department of
   1-15  Agriculture;
   1-16              (6)  the executive director of the State Soil and Water
   1-17  Conservation Board; <and>
   1-18              (7)  the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of
   1-19  The University of Texas at Austin; and
   1-20              (8)  a representative selected by the Texas Alliance of
   1-21  Groundwater <Conservation> Districts <Association>.
   1-22        (d)  Each member of the committee listed in Subsections
   1-23  (c)(1) through (7) <(6)> of this section may designate a personal
   1-24  representative from the member's agency to represent the member on
    2-1  the committee, but that designation does not relieve the member of
    2-2  responsibility for the acts and decisions of the representative.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  Subsection (d), Section 26.404, Water Code, is
    2-4  amended to read as follows:
    2-5        (d)  Each agency listed in Sections 26.403(c)(1) through (7)
    2-6  <(6)> of this code that is represented on the committee shall
    2-7  provide staff as necessary to assist the committee in carrying out
    2-8  its responsibilities.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.