1-1     By:  King of Uvalde (Senate Sponsor - Brown)          H.B. No. 1848
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the composition of the Texas Groundwater Protection
 1-9     Committee.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 26.403(c), Water Code, is amended to read
1-12     as follows:
1-13           (c)  The committee is composed of:
1-14                 (1)  the executive director of the commission;
1-15                 (2)  the executive administrator of the Texas Water
1-16     Development Board;
1-17                 (3)  the executive director of the Railroad Commission
1-18     of Texas;
1-19                 (4)  the commissioner of health of the Texas Department
1-20     of Health;
1-21                 (5)  the deputy commissioner of the Department of
1-22     Agriculture;
1-23                 (6)  the executive director of the State Soil and Water
1-24     Conservation Board;
1-25                 (7)  the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment
1-26     Station;
1-27                 (8)  the director of the Bureau of Economic Geology of
1-28     The University of Texas at Austin; [and]
1-29                 (9)  a representative selected by the Texas Alliance of
1-30     Groundwater Districts; and
1-31                 (10)  a representative of the Water Well Drillers and
1-32     Water Well Pump Installers Program of the Texas Department of
1-33     Licensing and Regulation selected by the executive director of the
1-34     department.
1-35           SECTION 2.  As soon as possible on or after the effective
1-36     date of this Act the executive director of the Texas Department of
1-37     Licensing and Regulation shall appoint to the Texas Groundwater
1-38     Protection Committee a representative of the Water Well Drillers
1-39     and Water Well Pump Installers Program of the department.
1-40           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-41     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46     passage, and it is so enacted.
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