By Horn                                               H.B. No. 2739
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the emissions standards of the Air Control Board.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 382.040.
    1-6        Sec. 382.040.  COUNTY APPROVAL
    1-7        The board may not impose, within a county, restrictions on
    1-8  emissions of air contaminants by any type of source that exceed
    1-9  restrictions imposed by the federal law or regulations of the
   1-10  United States Environmental Protection Agency unless the board has
   1-11  approval of the governing body of the county.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-13  and the 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.