By: Sims S.B. No. 1488 73R10560 SMH-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the installation and repair of water well pumps and 1-3 equipment. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 33.007, Water Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-7 (d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this section, the 1-8 commission may not adopt rules under this chapter: 1-9 (1) regulating the installation or repair of well 1-10 pumps and equipment by a person on the person's own property for 1-11 the person's own use; 1-12 (2) regulating the drilling, completion, operation, 1-13 repair, or plugging of a well other than the installation or repair 1-14 of well pumps and equipment or the repair or completion of a well 1-15 by an installer; or 1-16 (3) requiring a landowner or person possessing a well 1-17 to complete, repair, or plug the well. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.