By Uher H.B. No. 1578
75R6319 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the definition of air pollution.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 382.003(3), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (3) "Air pollution" means the presence in the
1-7 atmosphere of one or more air contaminants or combination of air
1-8 contaminants in such concentration and of such duration that[:]
1-9 [(A)] are or may tend to be injurious to or to
1-10 adversely affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation,
1-11 or property[; or]
1-12 [(B) interfere with the normal use or enjoyment
1-13 of animal life, vegetation, or property].
1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-15 (b) The change in law made by Section 382.003(3), Health and
1-16 Safety Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a permit
1-17 application that is submitted to the Texas Natural Resource
1-18 Conservation Commission on or after September 1, 1997. A person
1-19 who on September 1, 1997, holds a permit issued by the Texas
1-20 Natural Resource Conservation Commission under Chapter 382, Health
1-21 and Safety Code, shall continue to comply with the terms of that
1-22 permit until the permit is amended.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.