By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 2312
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to a prohibition on a requirement for air dispersion
 1-3     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  If the commission considers air dispersion modeling
 1-8     information in the course of adopting an exemption under Section
 1-9     382.057 for a concrete plant that performs wet  batching, dry
1-10     batching, or central mixing, the commission may not require that a
1-11     person who qualifies for the exemption conduct air dispersion
1-12     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant, and
1-13     evidence regarding air dispersion modeling may not be submitted at
1-14     a hearing under Section 382.056.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The heading to Section 382.058, Health and Safety
1-16     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-17           Sec. 382.058.  PROVISIONS RELATING TO [LIMITATION ON]
1-18     COMMISSION EXEMPTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN CONCRETE PLANTS.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-1     passage, and it is so enacted.