1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 290 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 1995; January 24, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 January 31, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 1-5 8, Nays 0; January 31, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the delay of the employer trip reduction program. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. (a) Notwithstanding any rule of the Texas 1-11 Natural Resource Conservation Commission to the contrary, the Texas 1-12 Natural Resource Conservation Commission shall immediately suspend, 1-13 until the 181st day after the effective date of this Act, 1-14 implementation of the employer trip reduction program: 1-15 (1) prescribed by Section 182(d)(1)(B) of the federal 1-16 Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7511a(d)(1)(B)); and 1-17 (2) to be developed in accordance with guidance issued 1-18 by the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 1-19 (b) An employer required by rule of the Texas Natural 1-20 Resource Conservation Commission to perform an act, other than the 1-21 submission of an employer trip reduction plan, to comply with the 1-22 employer trip reduction program is not required to perform the act 1-23 until the 181st day after the effective date of this Act. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *