By Horn                                               H.B. No. 2142
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the possession, use, manufacture, installation,
    1-3  transportation or sale of chlorofluorocarbons.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code
    1-6  is amended by amending Section 382.0205 to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Consistent with applicable federal law, the board by
    1-8  rule may control air contaminants as necessary to protect against
    1-9  adverse effects related to:
   1-10              (1)  acid deposition;
   1-11              (2)  stratospheric changes, including depletion of
   1-12  ozone; and
   1-13              (3)  climatic changes, including global warming.
   1-14        (b)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a) or any other law, a
   1-15  person may possess, use, manufacture, purchase, install, transport
   1-16  or sell chlorofluorocarbons.
   1-17        (c)  The possession, use, manufacture, purchase,
   1-18  installation, transportation or sale chlorofluorocarbons does not
   1-19  subject any person to any penalty, fine, retaliatory action or
   1-20  other punitive measure.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.