By: Fraser S.B. No. 1757 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the regulation of drinking water at certain youth 1-2 camps. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 341, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 341.051 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 341.051. WATER SUPPLIES AT YOUTH CAMPS. (a) This 1-7 subchapter does not apply to drinking water supplied by a youth 1-8 camp to staff and campers at the camp and their visitors. 1-9 (b) The department shall regulate the water supply at a 1-10 youth camp as provided by Section 141.009 and rules adopted by the 1-11 board under that section. Those rules must comply with the federal 1-12 Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. Section 300f et seq.). 1-13 (c) Youth camp drinking water shall be classified as being 1-14 furnished for private use, regardless of the number of persons for 1-15 whom water is supplied, and shall not be resold to any other entity 1-16 for any purpose. 1-17 (d) This section applies only to those youth camps currently 1-18 licensed and approved by the department. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.