By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 3040
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to adoption of certain airport zoning regulations.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 241.016, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Before an airport zoning regulation may be adopted, a
    1-8  political subdivision acting unilaterally under Section 241.013 <or
    1-9  joint airport zoning board> must appoint an airport zoning
   1-10  commission.  If the political subdivision has a planning commission
   1-11  or comprehensive zoning commission, that commission may be
   1-12  designated as the airport zoning commission.
   1-13        (e)  A joint airport zoning board created under Section
   1-14  241.014 is not required to appoint a commission under this section.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Sections 241.017(a) and (b), Local Government
   1-16  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-17        (a)  The governing body of a political subdivision <or a
   1-18  joint airport zoning board> may not hold a public hearing or take
   1-19  other action concerning an airport zoning regulation until it
   1-20  receives the final report of the airport zoning commission.
   1-21        (b)  An airport zoning regulation may not be adopted except
   1-22  by action of the governing body of the political subdivision or a
   1-23  joint airport zoning board after the political subdivision or joint
   1-24  airport zoning board holds a public hearing on the matter at which
    2-1  parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-3        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.