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.