1-1     By:  Puente (Senate Sponsor - Madla)                  H.B. No. 1016

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1997;

 1-3     April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Natural Resources; May 9, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 9, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                            By:  Wentworth

 1-8     Amend H.B. No. 1016 as follows:

 1-9                 (1)  In Section 1 of the bill, strike the recitation

1-10     (House Engrossed Version, page 1, lines 27 and 28) and substitute:

1-11     Sections 26.0461(a), (d), and (h), Water Code, are amended to read

1-12     as follows:

1-13                 (2)  In Section 1 of the bill, immediately before

1-14     amended Subsection (d), Section 26.0461, Water Code (House

1-15     Engrossed Version, page 1, between lines 28 and 29), insert:

1-16           (a)  The commission may impose fees for processing plans or

1-17     amendments to plans that are subject to review and approval under

1-18     the commission's rules for the protection of the Edwards Aquifer

1-19     and for inspecting the construction and maintenance of projects

1-20     covered by those plans.

1-21                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-22                                   AN ACT

1-23     relating to fees imposed for certain plans subject to Texas Natural

1-24     Resource Conservation Commission approval under the commission's

1-25     rules for the protection of the Edwards Aquifer.

1-26           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-27           SECTION 1.  Sections 26.0461(d) and (h), Water Code, are

1-28     amended to read as follows:

1-29           (d)  A fee imposed under this section may not be less than

1-30     $100 or more than $5,000 [$2,000].

1-31           (h)  A fee collected under this section shall be deposited in

1-32     the State Treasury to the credit of the water quality fund to be

1-33     used only for the commission's Edwards Aquifer programs.

1-34           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-39     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-40     passage, and it is so enacted.

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