By Gray                                               H.B. No. 2504
       74R4727 LJR-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the deputy directors of the Texas Natural Resource
    1-3  Conservation Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 5.222, Water Code, is amended to read as
    1-6  follows:
    1-7        Sec. 5.222.  DEPUTY DIRECTORS<; TRANSITIONAL ORGANIZATION>.
    1-8  (a)  The executive director may employ as many <commission has
    1-9  four> deputy directors as <directly reporting to> the executive
   1-10  director determines is appropriate.
   1-11        (b)  A <The> deputy director is under the direction of the
   1-12  executive director and shall exercise the powers and perform the
   1-13  duties assigned by the executive director. <for air quality shall
   1-14  be responsible for the management and supervision of all
   1-15  responsibilities of the commission under the federal Clean Air Act
   1-16  (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.) and Chapter 382, Health and Safety
   1-17  Code, including monitoring, permitting, policy research, planning,
   1-18  small business assistance, mobile sources, enforcement functions,
   1-19  and other duties assigned by the executive director that are not
   1-20  assigned by this section to other deputy directors.  The deputy
   1-21  director for air quality must have at least two years' experience
   1-22  in air pollution control program management for the Texas Air
   1-23  Control Board or the commission.>
   1-24        <(c)  The deputy director for water shall be responsible for
    2-1  the management and supervision of all water programs, including
    2-2  water quality, water rights and uses, water utilities, petroleum
    2-3  storage tank programs, water well drilling, the setting of
    2-4  standards for drinking water, protection of public water supplies
    2-5  and bodies of water, the regulation of on-site sewage disposal
    2-6  systems, the administration of on-site wastewater treatment
    2-7  research, wastewater treatment systems, and other duties assigned
    2-8  by the executive director that are not assigned by this section to
    2-9  other deputy directors.>
   2-10        <(d)  The deputy director for waste management shall be
   2-11  responsible for all regulatory duties assigned to the commission
   2-12  concerning the management, supervision, disposal, and cleanup of
   2-13  all hazardous wastes and solid wastes, the disposal of radioactive
   2-14  substances, and other duties assigned by the executive director
   2-15  that are not assigned by this section to other deputy directors.>
   2-16        <(e)  The deputy director for administration shall be
   2-17  responsible for the management and supervision of accounting,
   2-18  budgeting, personnel, data processing systems with nonregulatory
   2-19  purposes, general and staff services, and other duties assigned by
   2-20  the executive director that are not assigned by this section to
   2-21  other deputy directors.>
   2-22        <(f)  This section does not prohibit the commission or the
   2-23  executive director from establishing a direct line of reporting
   2-24  from persons providing or overseeing staff support functions for
   2-25  the commission or the executive director, including hearings,
   2-26  general legal consultation, research, or public information.  The
   2-27  salaries paid to the deputy directors described by Subsections (b)
    3-1  through (e) of this section may not be lower than those of any
    3-2  other position established within the commission, other than the
    3-3  executive director.>
    3-4        <(g)  This section expires September 1, 1997.>
    3-5        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   3-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   3-11  passage, and it is so enacted.
   3-12                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
   3-13        Amend Section 1 of H.B. 2504 by Gray as follows:
   3-14        On page 1, line 8, after the word "employ" delete the words
   3-15  "as many" and add the words "no more than seven".
   3-16                                                      Lewis of Orange