By Oliveira H.B. No. 1282 75R4595 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring the Texas Natural Resource Conservation 1-3 Commission to hold public hearings before adopting certain rules. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 5, Water Code, is amended 1-6 by adding Section 5.1035 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 5.1035. RULES REGARDING DRINKING WATER STANDARDS. 1-8 Before adopting rules regarding drinking water standards, the 1-9 commission shall hold public hearings to allow municipalities, 1-10 water supply corporations, and other interested persons to submit 1-11 data, views, or arguments concerning the proposed drinking water 1-12 standards. 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.