S.B. No. 1334
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the rulemaking authority of the Texas Water Commission
    1-2  regarding underground water.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 28.011, Water Code, is amended to read as
    1-5  follows:
    1-6        Sec. 28.011.  UNDERGROUND WATER:  REGULATIONS.  Except as
    1-7  otherwise provided by this code, the <The> commission may <shall>
    1-8  make and enforce rules and regulations for <conserving,> protecting
    1-9  and<,> preserving the quality of<, and distributing> underground<,
   1-10  subterranean, and percolating> water <located in this state and
   1-11  shall do all other things necessary for these purposes>.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.