Amend SB 1693 (house committee printing) by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Section 5.1175, Water Code, is amended to read 
as follows:    
	Sec. 5.1175.  PAYMENT OF PENALTY BY INSTALLMENT.  (a)  The 
commission by rule may [shall] allow a person who [small business 
that] owes a monetary civil or administrative penalty imposed for a 
violation of law within the commission's jurisdiction or for a 
violation of a license, permit, or order issued or rule adopted by 
the commission to pay the penalty in periodic installments.  The 
rule must provide a procedure for a person [qualified small 
business] to apply for permission to pay the penalty over time.
	(b)  [The rule must classify small businesses by their net 
annual receipts and number of employees.  A business that is a 
wholly owed subsidiary of a corporation may not qualify as a small 
business under this section.
	[(c)]  The rule may vary the period over which the penalty may 
be paid or the amount of the periodic installments according to the 
amount of the penalty owed and the size of the business that owes 
the penalty.  The period over which the penalty may be paid may not 
exceed 36 [12] months.
	SECTION ____.  Section 7.002, Water Code, is amended to read 
as follows:     
	Sec. 7.002.  ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY.  The commission may 
initiate an action under this chapter to enforce provisions of this 
code and the Health and Safety Code within the commission's 
jurisdiction as provided by Section 5.013 of this code and rules 
adopted under those provisions.  The commission or the executive 
director may institute legal proceedings to compel compliance with 
the relevant provisions of this code and the Health and Safety Code 
and rules, orders, permits, or other decisions of the commission.  
The commission may delegate to the executive director the authority 
to issue an administrative order, including an administrative order 
that assesses penalties or orders corrective measures, to ensure 
compliance with the provisions of this code and the Health and 
Safety Code within the commission's jurisdiction as provided by 
Section 5.013 of this code and rules adopted under those 
provisions.
	SECTION ____.  Section 26.0135(h), Water Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	(h)  The commission shall apportion, assess, and recover the 
reasonable costs of administering the water quality management 
programs under this section [from users of water and wastewater 
permit holders in the watershed according to the records of the 
commission generally in proportion to their right, through permit 
or contract, to use water from and discharge wastewater in the 
watershed].  Irrigation water rights, non-priority hydroelectric 
rights of a water right holder that owns or operates privately owned 
facilities that collectively have a capacity of less than two 
megawatts, and water rights held in the Texas Water Trust for terms 
of at least 20 years will not be subject to this assessment.  The 
cost to river authorities and others to conduct water quality 
monitoring and assessment shall be subject to prior review and 
approval by the commission as to methods of allocation and total 
amount to be recovered.  The commission shall adopt rules to 
supervise and implement the water quality monitoring, assessment, 
and associated costs.  The rules shall ensure that water users and 
wastewater dischargers do not pay excessive amounts, [that program 
funds are equitably apportioned among basins,] that a river 
authority may recover no more than the actual costs of 
administering the water quality management programs called for in 
this section, and that no municipality shall be assessed cost for 
any efforts that duplicate water quality management activities 
described in Section 26.177.  [The rules concerning the 
apportionment and assessment of reasonable costs shall provide for 
a recovery of not more than $5,000,000 annually.  Costs recovered by 
the commission are to be deposited to the credit of the water 
resource management account and may be used only to accomplish the 
purposes of this section.  The commission may apply not more than 10 
percent of the costs recovered annually toward the commission's 
overhead costs for the administration of this section and the 
implementation of regional water quality assessments.  The 
commission, with the assistance and input of each river authority, 
shall file a written report accounting for the costs recovered 
under this section with the governor, the lieutenant governor, and 
the speaker of the house of representatives on or before December 1 
of each even numbered year.]