By Puente                                       H.B. No. 1016

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                                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 a special account to be used

1-12     only for the commission's Edwards Aquifer programs [the water

1-13     quality fund].

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.

 2-1                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1

 2-2           Amend HB 1016 in Section 1 by striking proposed subsection

 2-3     (h) of Section 26.0461 of the Water Code, page 1, lines 10 through

 2-4     13, of the bill, and inserting the following words in its place:

 2-5           "(h)  A fee collected under this section shall be deposited

 2-6     in the State Treasury to the credit of the water quality fund to be

 2-7     used only for the commission's Edwards Aquifer programs."

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