By Solomons H.B. No. 1491 75R3629 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to permits for concrete batch plants. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 382, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0535 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 382.0535. PERSONS AFFECTED BY CONCRETE BATCH PLANT. 1-7 Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall consider as a 1-8 party affected by an application for a permit for a concrete batch 1-9 plant a person who: 1-10 (1) resides two miles or less from the outer perimeter 1-11 of the proposed facility; or 1-12 (2) owns or operates a place of worship, school, 1-13 hospital facility, nursing facility, or child care facility located 1-14 two miles or less from the outer perimeter of the proposed 1-15 facility. 1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-17 applies only to a proceeding of the Texas Natural Resource 1-18 Conservation Commission that relates to an application for a permit 1-19 for a concrete batch plant that is filed on or after that date. 1-20 The affected party status of any person in relation to a 1-21 proceeding of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission 1-22 that relates to an application filed before the effective date of 1-23 this Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the 1-24 application was filed, and that law is continued in effect for that 2-1 purpose. 2-2 SECTION 3. 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.