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.