Amend CSHB 3474 by adding the following appropriately numbered sections:

SECTION ____.  Section 11.139, Water Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:

(a)  Except as provided by Section 11.148 [of this code], the commission may grant an emergency permit, order, or amendment to an existing permit, certified filing, or certificate of adjudication after notice to the governor for an initial period of not more than 270 [120] days if the commission finds that:

(1)  emergency conditions exist which present an imminent threat to the public health and safety and which override the necessity to comply with established statutory procedures; and

(2)  there are no feasible practicable alternatives to the emergency authorization.

(a-1)  Such emergency action may be renewed once for not longer than 60 days.

SECTION ____.  The change in law made by this Act applies only to an application for an emergency authorization or renewal of an emergency authorization that is submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. An application for an emergency authorization or renewal of an emergency authorization that is submitted to the commission before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION ____.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2015.