By: Bivins, Carriker S.B. No. 1334
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. The
1-7 commission may <shall> make and enforce rules and regulations for
1-8 <conserving,> protecting<,> and preserving<, and distributing> the
1-9 quality of underground<, subterranean, and percolating> water
1-10 <located in this state and shall do all other things necessary for
1-11 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.