By Maxey H.B. No. 553 76R63 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the qualifications of a commissioner of the Texas 1-3 Natural Resource Conservation Commission. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5.052(a), Water Code, is amended to read 1-6 as follows: 1-7 (a) The commission is composed of three members who are 1-8 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate 1-9 to represent the general public. At least one member must be a 1-10 person who, by the person's actions before the appointment, has 1-11 demonstrated an ongoing commitment to environmental conservation or 1-12 environmental protection. 1-13 SECTION 2. Section 5.052(a), Water Code, as amended by this 1-14 Act, applies only to appointments made under that section on or 1-15 after the effective date of this Act and does not affect the 1-16 qualifications or term of office of a member of the Texas Natural 1-17 Resource Conservation Commission appointed before the effective 1-18 date. 1-19 SECTION 3. 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, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.