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.