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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