By:  Lewis                                            H.B. No. 1305
       73R2727 RWS-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the establishment of and the areas subject to municipal
    1-3  ordinances to control or abate air or water pollution.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 54.004, Local Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 54.004.  Preservation of Health, Property, Good
    1-8  Government, and Order in Home-Rule Municipality; ENFORCEMENT OF AIR
    1-9  OR WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ORDINANCES.  (a)  A home-rule
   1-10  municipality may adopt and enforce ordinances necessary to protect
   1-11  health, life, and property and to preserve the good government,
   1-12  order, and security of the municipality and its inhabitants.
   1-13        (b)  A home-rule municipality shall enforce uniformly within
   1-14  the corporate boundaries of the municipality and the
   1-15  extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality all provisions of
   1-16  all ordinances relating to the control or abatement of air or water
   1-17  pollution that it adopts to provide equal protection for all
   1-18  inhabitants of the municipality and its extraterritorial
   1-19  jurisdiction.
   1-20        (c)  The application of an ordinance of a home-rule
   1-21  municipality that is in effect on September 1, 1993, that relates
   1-22  to the control or abatement of air or water pollution and that does
   1-23  not apply by its terms to the entire area within the corporate
   1-24  boundaries of the municipality and the area within the
    2-1  extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality is extended to
    2-2  the entire area within the corporate boundaries of the municipality
    2-3  and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality.
    2-4        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-5        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.