By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 954
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to noise abatement requirements of certain municipal
    1-2  airports.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 16A, Municipal Airports
    1-5  Act (Article 46d-16A, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  Noise Abatement Requirements.  The governing body of an
    1-8  incorporated city, town, or village that owns a municipal airport
    1-9  to which this section applies shall:
   1-10              (1)  not later than March 31, 1990, comply with the
   1-11  applicable provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement
   1-12  Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. Sec. 2101 et seq.);
   1-13              (2)  not later than December 31, 1991, provide adequate
   1-14  soundproofing and noise reduction devices for all public buildings
   1-15  within the 65 or higher average day-night sound level contour as
   1-16  determined by the governing body of the city, town, or village in
   1-17  accordance with applicable Federal Aviation Administration Advisory
   1-18  Circulars; or
   1-19              (3)  not later than March 31, 1990, an incorporated
   1-20  city, town, or village affected by this Act shall award a contract
   1-21  for land acquisition services for the purchase of real property
   1-22  required for the site of a replacement airport and complete a
   1-23  master plan for the replacement airport and, not later than
   1-24  December 31, 1997 <1996>, provide the replacement airport.
    2-1        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-6  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-7  passage, and it is so enacted.