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 Section 11.1421, Water Code, is repealed.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.