By Sims, Brown S.B. No. 741 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.