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.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1848 was passed by the House on March
25, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1848 was passed by the Senate on
April 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor