Amend CSHB 3540 by adding the following appropriately 
numbered SECTIONS to ARTICLE 4 and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS 
accordingly:
	SECTION 4.    . Section 26.35731(a), Water Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(a)  The [Except as provided by Subsection (b), the] 
commission shall consider and process a claim by an eligible owner 
or operator for reimbursement from the petroleum storage tank 
remediation account in the order in which it is received.  The 
commission shall consider and process all claims by eligible owners 
and operators for reimbursement from the account that were received 
before September 1, 1995, before the commission considers a claim 
received after that date.
	SECTION 4.    . Section 26.35731(b), Water Code, is repealed.