By: Sims S.B. No. 469
73R4902 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition and staffing of the Texas Groundwater
1-3 Protection Committee.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 26.403(c) and (d), Water Code, are
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (c) The committee is composed of:
1-8 (1) the executive director of the commission;
1-9 (2) the executive administrator of the Texas Water
1-10 Development Board;
1-11 (3) the executive director of the Railroad Commission
1-12 of Texas;
1-13 (4) the commissioner of health of the Texas Department
1-14 of Health;
1-15 (5) the deputy commissioner of the Department of
1-16 Agriculture;
1-17 (6) the executive director of the State Soil and Water
1-18 Conservation Board; <and>
1-19 (7) the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of
1-20 The University of Texas at Austin; and
1-21 (8) a representative selected by the Texas Groundwater
1-22 Conservation Districts Association.
1-23 (d) Each member of the committee listed in Subsections
1-24 (c)(1) through (7) <(6)> of this section may designate a personal
2-1 representative from the member's agency to represent the member on
2-2 the committee, but that designation does not relieve the member of
2-3 responsibility for the acts and decisions of the representative.
2-4 SECTION 2. Section 26.404(d), Water Code, is amended to read
2-5 as follows:
2-6 (d) Each agency listed in Sections 26.403(c)(1) through (7)
2-7 <(6)> of this code that is represented on the committee shall
2-8 provide staff as necessary to assist the committee in carrying out
2-9 its responsibilities.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.