By: Bivins S.B. No. 1404 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to notice requirements for matters within the jurisdiction 1-2 of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 5.122 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 5.122. NOTICE. (a) The commission by rule shall adopt 1-7 notice requirements related to matters within the commission's 1-8 jurisdiction, including notice of applications received by the 1-9 commission. 1-10 (b) The notice requirements for an application for a permit 1-11 or other authorization or for a variance or exemption must be, to 1-12 the extent practicable and consistent with federal and state law, 1-13 uniform when compared to the notice requirements for an application 1-14 for a similar permit, authorization, variance, or exemption issued 1-15 by the commission. 1-16 (c) The commission shall consider and the rules may reflect 1-17 the differing needs for notice for different matters for which a 1-18 person may apply for a permit, authorization, variance, or 1-19 exemption issued by the commission. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.