1-1  By:  Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                H.B. No. 3040
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-3  May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 26, 1995, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 26, 1995, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to adoption of certain airport zoning regulations.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 241.016, Local Government Code, is
   1-12  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  Before an airport zoning regulation may be adopted, a
   1-15  political subdivision acting unilaterally under Section 241.013 <or
   1-16  joint airport zoning board> must appoint an airport zoning
   1-17  commission.  If the political subdivision has a planning commission
   1-18  or comprehensive zoning commission, that commission may be
   1-19  designated as the airport zoning commission.
   1-20        (e)  A joint airport zoning board created under Section
   1-21  241.014 is not required to appoint a commission under this section.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  Sections 241.017(a) and (b), Local Government
   1-23  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-24        (a)  The governing body of a political subdivision <or a
   1-25  joint airport zoning board> may not hold a public hearing or take
   1-26  other action concerning an airport zoning regulation until it
   1-27  receives the final report of the airport zoning commission.
   1-28        (b)  An airport zoning regulation may not be adopted except
   1-29  by action of the governing body of the political subdivision or a
   1-30  joint airport zoning board after the political subdivision or joint
   1-31  airport zoning board holds a public hearing on the matter at which
   1-32  parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-34        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-35  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-36  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-37  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-38  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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