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.