Amend HB 1287 as follows: Strike all below the enacting clause and substitute the following: SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT. (a) The legislature finds that current administrative practices often result in unnecessary governmental regulatory delays that inhibit the economic development of the state. (b) The legislature intends to establish requirements relating to the bureaucratic obstacles to the processing and issuing of permits and approvals by state agencies to alleviate bureaucratic obstacles to economic development. SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Subtitle A, Title 10, government Code, is amended by adding Chapter 2010 to read as follows: CHAPTER 2010 STATE PERMITS Sec. 2010.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "permit" means a license, certificate, approval, registration, consent permit or other form of authorization required by law, rule, or regulation that a person must obtain to perform an action or initiate a project for which a permit is sought. (2) "Project" means an endeavor over which a state agency exerts its jurisdiction and for which one or more permits are required to initiate or continue the endeavor. (3) "State agency" means a bureau, department, division, board, commission, or other agency of the state, acting in its capacity of processing approving or issuing a permit. Sec. 2010.002 UNIFORMITY OF REQUIREMENTS. (a) each state agency shall consider the approval, disapproval, or conditional approval of an application for a permit solely on the basis of any orders, regulations, rules, expiration dates, or other properly adopted requirements in effect at the time the original application for the permit is filed. (b) After an application for a permit is filed, a state agency may not shorten the duration of any permit required for the project. (c) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, an applicant for a permit may take advantage of a regulation that has changed after application for the permit was made, including changes that lengthen the effective life of the permit after the date the application for the permit was made, without forfeiting any rights under this chapter. Sec. 2010.003. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. This chapter applies only to a project in progress on or commenced after September 1, 1997. For purposes of this chapter a project was in progress on September 1, 1997, if: (1) before September 1, 1997: (A) a regulatory agency approved or issued one or more permits for the project; or (B) an application for the project was filed with a regulatory agency; and (2) on or after September 1, 1997, a regulatory agency enacts or otherwise imposes (A) an order, regulation, ordinance, or rule that in effect retroactively shortens the duration of a permit for the project; (B) a deadline for obtaining a permit required to continue or complete the project that did not exist before September 1, 1997; or (C) any requirement for the project that was not applicable to the project before September 1, 1997. Sec. 2010.004 EXEMPTIONS. (a) This chapter does not apply to: (1) a permit issued in connection with a form of gaming or gambling; (2) a permit issued under Title 2, Tax Code; (3) a permit issued under a program for which a state regulatory agency has received authorization, delegation, or approval from the federal government to implement an equivalent state program in lieu of or as part of the federal program; (4) state laws, including rules, regulations, or other requirements affecting colonias; (5) regulations to prevent iminent destruction of property or injury to persons; or (6) construction standards for public works located on sate lands or easements. (b) The provisions of this chapter do not apply to a permit issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas. Sec. 2010.005 EFFECT ON COASTAL MANAGEMENT PLANS. This chapter does not: (1) limit or otherwise affect the authority of a political subdivision, the state, or an agency of the state with respect to the implementation or enforcement of an ordinance, a rule, or a statutory standard of a program, plan, or ordinance that was adopted under the federal Coastal Zone management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. Section 1451 et seq.) or Subtitle E. Title 2. Natural Resources Code. Sec. 2010.006 ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER. This chapter may be enforced only through mandamus or declaratory or injunctive relief. SECTION 3 EFFECT ON JUDICIAL PROCEEDING. This Act does not affect the rights or remedies of any person or entity under a final judgment rendered by a court before the effective date of this Act, or in any litigation pending in a court on the effective date of the Act, involving an interpretation of Subchapter 1, Chapter 481, government Code, as it existed before its repeal by the 75th Legislature. SECTION 4. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring bills to read on three several days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.