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.