By King of Uvalde                                     H.B. No. 1848
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the composition of the Texas Groundwater Protection
 1-3     Committee.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 26.403(c), Water Code, is amended to read
 1-6     as follows:
 1-7           (c)  The committee is composed of:
 1-8                 (1)  the executive director of the commission;
 1-9                 (2)  the executive administrator of the Texas Water
1-10     Development Board;
1-11                 (3)  the executive director of the Railroad Commission
1-12     of Texas;
1-13                 (4)  the commissioner of health of the Texas Department
1-14     of Health;
1-15                 (5)  the deputy commissioner of the Department of
1-16     Agriculture;
1-17                 (6)  the executive director of the State Soil and Water
1-18     Conservation Board;
1-19                 (7)  the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment
1-20     Station;
1-21                 (8)  the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of
1-22     The University of Texas at Austin; [and]
1-23                 (9)  a representative selected by the Texas Alliance of
1-24     Groundwater Districts; and
 2-1                 (10)  a representative of the Water Well Drillers and
 2-2     Water Well Pump Installers Program of the Texas Department of
 2-3     Licensing and Regulation selected by the executive director of the
 2-4     department.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  As soon as possible on or after the effective
 2-6     date of this Act the executive director of the Texas Department of
 2-7     Licensing and Regulation shall appoint to the Texas Groundwater
 2-8     Protection Committee a representative of the Water Well Drillers
 2-9     and Water Well Pump Installers Program of the department.
2-10           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16     passage, and it is so enacted.