H.B. No. 3040
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.