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.