By Conley                                             H.B. No. 1256
       74R3725 JJT-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the executive director of the Texas
    1-3  Natural Resource Conservation Commission to issue an uncontested
    1-4  permit, license, certificate, or authorization.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended
    1-7  by adding Section 5.2211 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 5.2211.  ISSUANCE OF PERMIT BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.  The
    1-9  commission may delegate to the executive director the authority to
   1-10  issue a permit, license, certificate, or other authorization under
   1-11  the jurisdiction of the commission if:
   1-12              (1)  the executive director determines that the
   1-13  authorization is uncontested; and
   1-14              (2)  notice of the application for the authorization
   1-15  has been provided as required by applicable law.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.