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.