1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1436
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 27, 1993; April 28, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 May 7, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; May 7, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the management of certain funds of the watermaster
1-22 operations of the Texas Water Commission.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 11.329, Water Code, is amended by adding
1-25 Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-26 (g) Section 403.094(h), Government Code, does not apply to
1-27 the assessments paid to the commission by holders of water rights
1-28 covering the cost of administration of adjudicated water rights as
1-29 provided for in this section. The assessment fees are dedicated to
1-30 the commission and may only be used for the payment of the cost of
1-31 the maintenance and operations of the watermaster for whose
1-32 operations the assessments were made.
1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-38 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-39 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-40 * * * * *
1-41 Austin,
1-42 Texas
1-43 May 7, 1993
1-44 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-45 President of the Senate
1-46 Sir:
1-47 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
1-48 No. 1436, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-49 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-50 that it do pass and be printed.
1-51 Sims,
1-52 Chairman
1-53 * * * * *
1-54 WITNESSES
1-55 FOR AGAINST ON
1-56 ___________________________________________________________________
1-57 FOR AGAINST ON
1-58 ___________________________________________________________________
1-59 Name: Ralph Roming x
1-60 Representing: Lower Rio Grand Irr. Assoc.
1-61 City: Round Rock
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