S.B. No. 1488
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the installation and repair of water well pumps and
    1-2  equipment.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 32.009, Water Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (d)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, the
    1-7  commission may not adopt rules under this chapter:
    1-8              (1)  regulating the installation or repair of well
    1-9  pumps and equipment by a person who owns or is in control of
   1-10  property or the person's employee or a person not hired or
   1-11  compensated acting on the person's behalf on the property the
   1-12  person owns or controls for the person's own use; or
   1-13              (2)  requiring a person who owns or is in control of
   1-14  property or possesses a well to complete, repair, or retrofit the
   1-15  well to any standard other than a standard in effect at the time
   1-16  the well was originally completed unless the well is found to be a
   1-17  threat to public health and safety or to water quality.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 33.007, Water Code, is amended by adding
   1-19  Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-20        (d)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, the
   1-21  commission may not adopt rules under this chapter:
   1-22              (1)  regulating the installation or repair of well
   1-23  pumps and equipment by a person who owns or is in control of
   1-24  property or the person's employee or a person not hired or
    2-1  compensated acting on the person's behalf on the property the
    2-2  person owns or controls for the person's own use; or
    2-3              (2)  requiring a person who owns or is in control of
    2-4  property or possesses a well to complete, repair, or retrofit the
    2-5  well to any standard other than a standard in effect at the time
    2-6  the well was originally completed unless the well is found to be a
    2-7  threat to public health and safety or to water quality.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.