1-1 By: Sims S.B. No. 469
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1993; February 25, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 March 8, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 8, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 469 By: Sims
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the composition and staffing of the Texas Groundwater
1-24 Protection Committee.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subsections (c) and (d), Section 26.403, Water
1-27 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-28 (c) The committee is composed of:
1-29 (1) the executive director of the commission;
1-30 (2) the executive administrator of the Texas Water
1-31 Development Board;
1-32 (3) the executive director of the Railroad Commission
1-33 of Texas;
1-34 (4) the commissioner of health of the Texas Department
1-35 of Health;
1-36 (5) the deputy commissioner of the Department of
1-37 Agriculture;
1-38 (6) the executive director of the State Soil and Water
1-39 Conservation Board; <and>
1-40 (7) the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of
1-41 The University of Texas at Austin; and
1-42 (8) a representative selected by the Texas Alliance of
1-43 Groundwater <Conservation> Districts <Association>.
1-44 (d) Each member of the committee listed in Subsections
1-45 (c)(1) through (7) <(6)> of this section may designate a personal
1-46 representative from the member's agency to represent the member on
1-47 the committee, but that designation does not relieve the member of
1-48 responsibility for the acts and decisions of the representative.
1-49 SECTION 2. Subsection (d), Section 26.404, Water Code, is
1-50 amended to read as follows:
1-51 (d) Each agency listed in Sections 26.403(c)(1) through (7)
1-52 <(6)> of this code that is represented on the committee shall
1-53 provide staff as necessary to assist the committee in carrying out
1-54 its responsibilities.
1-55 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-56 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-57 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-58 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-59 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-60 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-61 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-63 Austin,
1-64 Texas
1-65 March 8, 1993
1-66 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-67 President of the Senate
1-68 Sir:
2-1 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-2 No. 469, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-3 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-4 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
2-5 do pass and be printed.
2-6 Sims,
2-7 Chairman
2-8 * * * * *
2-9 WITNESSES
2-10 FOR AGAINST ON
2-11 ___________________________________________________________________
2-12 Name: C. E. Williams x
2-13 Representing: Panhandle Groundwater
2-14 Cons Dis
2-15 City: WhiteDeer
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2-17 Name: Ricky Loamuh Harston x
2-18 Representing: Glasscock County Underground
2-19 Water
2-20 City: Garden City
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2-22 Name: Gary Lee Walker x
2-23 Representing: Tx Alliance of Groundwater
2-24 City: Plains
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2-26 Name: Bill E. Couch x
2-27 Representing: Barton Springs/Edwards
2-28 Aquife
2-29 City: Austin
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2-31 Name: Auburn L. Mitchell x
2-32 Representing: Bureau of Economic Geology
2-33 City: University State
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