1-1  By:  Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff)               H.B. No. 1318
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 22, 1995;
    1-3  March 23, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; April 20, 1995, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to an exemption from the sand and gravel permitting
    1-9  process for disturbances of marl, sand, gravel, shell, and mudshell
   1-10  for noncommercial maintenance projects by public utilities.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Chapter 86, Parks and Wildlife Code, is amended
   1-13  by adding Section 86.0191 to read as follows:
   1-14        Sec. 86.0191.  EXEMPTION.  The commission shall, by rule,
   1-15  exempt entities from the requirements of this chapter regarding
   1-16  permits and fees required for disturbing or taking marl, sand,
   1-17  gravel, shell, and mudshell for noncommercial purposes when such
   1-18  disturbances or takings occur for maintenance projects carried out
   1-19  by public utilities.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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