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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the appointment of committees to advise or assist the

 1-3     Edwards Aquifer Authority.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 626, Acts of the 73rd Legislature,

 1-6     Regular Session, 1993, is amended by adding Section 1.105 to read

 1-7     as follows:

 1-8           Sec. 1.105.  ADVISORY OR OTHER COMMITTEES.  (a)  The board

 1-9     may appoint a committee to advise or assist the board with any

1-10     function of the board or the authority.

1-11           (b)  The board shall designate an elected board member to act

1-12     as presiding officer of each committee appointed under this

1-13     section.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.