By Puente                                             H.B. No. 1016

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to fees imposed for certain plans subject to Texas Natural

 1-3     Resource Conservation Commission approval under the commission's

 1-4     rules for the protection of the Edwards Aquifer.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Sections 26.0461(d) and (h), Water Code, are

 1-7     amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (d)  A fee imposed under this section may not be less than

 1-9     $100 or more than $5,000 [$2,000].

1-10           (h)  A fee collected under this section shall be deposited in

1-11     the State Treasury to the credit of the water quality fund to be

1-12     used only for the commission's Edwards Aquifer programs.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-19     passage, and it is so enacted.