By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1436
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the management of certain funds of the watermaster
    1-2  operations of the Texas Water Commission.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 11.329 Texas Water Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
    1-6        (g)  Section 403.094(h), Government Code, does not apply to
    1-7  the assessments paid to the Commission by holders of water rights
    1-8  covering the cost of administration of adjudicated water rights as
    1-9  provided for in this Section.  The assessment fees are dedicated to
   1-10  the Commission and may only be used for the payment of the cost of
   1-11  the maintenance and operations of the watermaster, for whose
   1-12  operations the assessments were made.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.