By Maxey H.B. No. 3281 76R8904 SMH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of a state agency to report to regulated 1-3 industries on violations of certain environmental or health and 1-4 safety laws in order to help prevent future violations. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. The Texas Environmental, Health, and Safety Audit 1-7 Privilege Act (Article 4447cc, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is 1-8 amended by adding Section 14 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 14. AUTHORITY OF STATE AGENCY TO REPORT TO REGULATED 1-10 INDUSTRIES ON VIOLATIONS. (a) Notwithstanding Section 5 of this 1-11 Act, a state agency to which violations of environmental or health 1-12 and safety laws are disclosed under this Act may provide a 1-13 regulated industry or an entity representing a regulated industry a 1-14 summary of common and significant violations of those laws by 1-15 members of that industry in order to help prevent future 1-16 violations. 1-17 (b) This section does not authorize a state agency to 1-18 disclose information that would permit identification of a 1-19 violation by any particular person. 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.