By McClendon H.B. No. 1738 75R4331 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to certain reports under the federal Emergency Planning 1-3 and Community Right-to-Know Act. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 6, Health and Safety Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 504 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 504. EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW 1-8 INFORMATION 1-9 Sec. 504.001. COMPILATION OF LIST. The Texas Natural 1-10 Resource Conservation Commission shall compile a list of persons in 1-11 the state that Section 312 of the Emergency Planning and Community 1-12 Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. Section 11022) requires to 1-13 submit an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form that 1-14 contains tier I information, as described by Subsection (d) of that 1-15 section. The commission shall: 1-16 (1) list the persons alphabetically and according to 1-17 the county in which the facility owned or operated by the person is 1-18 located; 1-19 (2) indicate on the list which of those persons has 1-20 not submitted the required inventory form; 1-21 (3) revise the list annually; and 1-22 (4) make the list available to a member of the public 1-23 on request and available for public inspection in each of the 1-24 agency's offices. 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.