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   1-11  Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, is repealed.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.