By: Ellis S.B. No. 1218 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the effective date of the federal operating permit 1-2 program for air quality control in Texas. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-5 by adding Section 382.064 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 382.064. INITIAL APPLICATION DATE. No applications for 1-7 federal operating permits shall be required to be submitted to the 1-8 board prior to the approval of the Title V permitting program by 1-9 the United States Environmental Protection Agency. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 2.35, Chapter 3, Acts of the 72nd 1-11 Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is repealed. 1-12 SECTION 3. 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, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.