By: Armbrister S.B. No. 684 73R4075 JJT-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of emissions from an agricultural 1-3 operation. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 382.003(2), Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (2) "Air contaminant" means particulate matter, 1-8 radioactive material, dust, fumes, gas, mist, smoke, vapor, or 1-9 odor, including any combination of those items, produced by 1-10 processes other than natural. The term does not include an 1-11 emission from an agricultural operation. 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.