By Kuempel                                            H.B. No. 1318
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to an exemption from the sand and gravel permitting
    1-3  process for disturbances of marl, sand, gravel, shell, and mudshell
    1-4  for noncommercial maintenance projects by public utilities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Chapter 86, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
    1-7  by adding Section 86.0191 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 86.0191.  EXEMPTION.  The commission shall, by rule,
    1-9  exempt entities from the requirements of this chapter regarding
   1-10  permits and fees required for disturbing or taking marl, sand,
   1-11  gravel, shell, and mudshell for noncommercial purposes when such
   1-12  disturbances or takings occur for maintenance projects carried out
   1-13  by public utilities.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.