Amend SB 486 as follows: (1) Strike SECTION 5 of the bill and substitute the following: SECTION 5. (a) Sections 361.066(a) and (c), Health and Safety Code, as amended and added by this Act, apply only to an application submitted on or after the effective date of this Act. (b) Sections 361.152, 363.112, and 364.012, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, do not apply until January 1, 2000 to any application submitted after September 1, 1998 for a facility proposed to be located in a county in which the commissioners court has provided notice by September 1, 1999, in accordance with any applicable notice provisions in Chapter 551, Government Code, of intent to enact an ordinance pursuant to this Act. (2) Strike SECTION 6 of the bill and substitute the following: SECTION 6. 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 be 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.