By Serna                                              H.B. No. 3151
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation and application permitting of
    1-3  construction, expansion, modification or altering of an industrial
    1-4  laundry within the city limits of a certain city.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  DEFINITIONS.  In this Act:
    1-7              (1)  "Commission" means the Texas Natural Resources
    1-8  Commission.
    1-9              (2)  "Industrial Laundry" means a laundry that uses
   1-10  toxic chemicals, pumice stone or caustic to wash, finish, or alter
   1-11  the appearance of a garment or fabric for retail sale or wholesale
   1-12  distribution by a manufacture, distributor, or wholesaler of
   1-13  apparel.
   1-14              (3)  "Person" means an individual, sole proprietorship,
   1-15  association, corporation, business trust, or other private legal
   1-16  entity.
   1-17              (4)  "Pumice stone" means an abrasive that is gritty
   1-18  volcanic dust, very light in weight, and buoyant in liquid.
   1-19        Section 2.  CAPACITY USAGE.  (a)  A capacity water usage of
   1-20  no more than 250,000 gallons per day of potable water drawn from
   1-21  Public Service Board water lines shall be prohibited for any future
   1-22  planned Industrial Laundry facilities within the limits.
   1-23        (b)  The city's Public Service Board may determine or set the
    2-1  required amounts of water consumption of present plants currently
    2-2  under construction, modification and or expansion.
    2-3        (c)  Laundry facilities of a larger water consumption
    2-4  presently in operation, under construction, modification and or
    2-5  expansion shall be prohibited from potable water usage of no more
    2-6  than one million gallons (on million) per day within city limits.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  LICENSE RENEWAL.  (a.)  A license is valid one
    2-8  year and may be renewed subject to inspection and review of laundry
    2-9  facility and complete audit of water consumption records.
   2-10        SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   2-11  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-12  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-13  constitutional rule requiring bill to be read on three several days
   2-14  in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.