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(a), (d), and (h), Water Code,

 1-7     are amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (a)  The commission may impose fees for processing plans or

 1-9     amendments to plans that are subject to review and approval under

1-10     the commission's rules for the protection of the Edwards Aquifer

1-11     and for inspecting the construction and maintenance of projects

1-12     covered by those plans.

1-13           (d)  A fee imposed under this section may not be less than

1-14     $100 or more than $5,000 [$2,000].

1-15           (h)  A fee collected under this section shall be deposited in

1-16     the State Treasury to the credit of the water quality fund to be

1-17     used only for the commission's Edwards Aquifer programs.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1016 was passed by the House on April

         8, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1016 on May 21, 1997, by a non-record

         vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1016 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, on May 19, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays

         0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor