By Haywood                                            S.B. No. 1353
       74R8121 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to adoption of certain airport zoning regulations.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 241.016, Local Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Before an airport zoning regulation may be adopted, a
    1-8  political subdivision <or joint airport zoning board> must appoint
    1-9  an airport zoning commission.  If the political subdivision has a
   1-10  planning commission or comprehensive zoning commission, that
   1-11  commission may be designated as the airport zoning commission.
   1-12        (e)  A joint airport zoning board created under Section
   1-13  241.014 also may appoint a commission under this section.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Sections 241.017(a) and (b), Local Government
   1-15  Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-16        (a)  The governing body of a political subdivision <or a
   1-17  joint airport zoning board> may not hold a public hearing or take
   1-18  other action concerning an airport zoning regulation until it
   1-19  receives the final report of the airport zoning commission.
   1-20        (b)  An airport zoning regulation may not be adopted except
   1-21  by action of the governing body of the political subdivision or a
   1-22  joint airport zoning board after the political subdivision or joint
   1-23  airport zoning board holds a public hearing on the matter at which
   1-24  parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-2        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.