By: Henderson, Haywood S.B. No. 290 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the delay of the employer trip reduction program. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding any rule of the Texas 1-4 Natural Resource Conservation Commission to the contrary, the Texas 1-5 Natural Resource Conservation Commission shall immediately suspend, 1-6 until the 181st day after the effective date of this Act, 1-7 implementation of the employer trip reduction program: 1-8 (1) prescribed by Section 182(d)(1)(B) of the federal 1-9 Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7511a(d)(1)(B)); and 1-10 (2) to be developed in accordance with guidance issued 1-11 by the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1-12 (b) An employer required by rule of the Texas Natural 1-13 Resource Conservation Commission to perform an act, other than the 1-14 submission of an employer trip reduction plan, to comply with the 1-15 employer trip reduction program is not required to perform the act 1-16 until the 181st day after the effective date of this Act. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.