By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 655
       73R601 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the repeal of the exemption of mariculture activities
    1-3  from certain permit requirements under the Water Code.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 11.121, Water Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.121.  PERMIT REQUIRED.  Except as provided in Section
    1-8  <Sections> 11.142 <and 11.1421> of this code, no person may
    1-9  appropriate any state water or begin construction of any work
   1-10  designed for the storage, taking, or diversion of water without
   1-11  first obtaining a permit from the commission to make the
   1-12  appropriation.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  Section 11.1421, Water Code, is repealed.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-15        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.