1-1  By:  Barrientos                                        S.B. No. 954
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1995; March 7, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  April 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to noise abatement requirements of certain municipal
    1-9  airports.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 16A, Municipal Airports
   1-12  Act (Article 46d-16A, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
   1-13  read as follows:
   1-14        (c)  Noise Abatement Requirements.  The governing body of an
   1-15  incorporated city, town, or village that owns a municipal airport
   1-16  to which this section applies shall:
   1-17              (1)  not later than March 31, 1990, comply with the
   1-18  applicable provisions of the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement
   1-19  Act of 1979 (49 U.S.C. Sec. 2101 et seq.);
   1-20              (2)  not later than December 31, 1991, provide adequate
   1-21  soundproofing and noise reduction devices for all public buildings
   1-22  within the 65 or higher average day-night sound level contour as
   1-23  determined by the governing body of the city, town, or village in
   1-24  accordance with applicable Federal Aviation Administration Advisory
   1-25  Circulars; or
   1-26              (3)  not later than March 31, 1990, an incorporated
   1-27  city, town, or village affected by this Act shall award a contract
   1-28  for land acquisition services for the purchase of real property
   1-29  required for the site of a replacement airport and complete a
   1-30  master plan for the replacement airport and, not later than
   1-31  December 31, 1997 <1996>, provide the replacement airport.
   1-32        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-37  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-38  passage, and it is so enacted.
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