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.