1-1  By:  Ellis                                            S.B. No. 1218
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 16, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  May 3, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Sims               x                               
   1-10        Truan              x                               
   1-11        Armbrister         x                               
   1-12        Barrientos                                     x   
   1-13        Bivins                                         x   
   1-14        Brown              x                               
   1-15        Carriker           x                               
   1-16        Lucio              x                               
   1-17        Montford                                       x   
   1-18        Ratliff                                        x   
   1-19        Shelley                                        x   
   1-20  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1218                   By:  Lucio
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the effective date of the federal operating permit
   1-24  program for air quality control in Texas.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
   1-27  Code, is amended by adding Section 382.064 to read as follows:
   1-28        Sec. 382.064.  INITIAL APPLICATION DATE.  An application for
   1-29  a federal operating permit is not required to be submitted to the
   1-30  board before the United States Environmental Protection Agency
   1-31  approves the Title V permitting program.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Section 2.35, Chapter 3, Acts of
   1-33  the 72nd Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1991, Sections 382.0541,
   1-34  382.0542, and 382.0561 through 382.0563, Health and Safety Code,
   1-35  and the federal operating permit requirement described by Section
   1-36  382.054, Health and Safety Code, take effect on the effective date
   1-37  of this Act.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-43  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-44  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-46                                                         Austin,
   1-47  Texas
   1-48                                                         May 3, 1993
   1-49  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-50  President of the Senate
   1-51  Sir:
   1-52  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
   1-53  No. 1218, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-54  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-55  that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
   1-56  lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
   1-57                                                         Sims,
   1-58  Chairman
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   1-60                               WITNESSES
   1-61  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1218.