By Solomons                                           H.B. No. 2764
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the authority of a county to regulate automotive
 1-3     wrecking and salvage yards.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 238.001(1), Local Government Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7                 (1)  "Automotive wrecking and salvage yard" means a
 1-8     business other than a business classified as a salvage pool
 1-9     operator under Article 6687-1a, Revised Statutes, that stores three
1-10     or more wrecked vehicles outdoors for the purpose of:
1-11                       (A)  selling the vehicles whole; or
1-12                       (B)  dismantling or otherwise wrecking the
1-13     vehicles to remove parts for sale or for use in an automotive
1-14     repair or rebuilding business.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.