By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 3282
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                                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.  Chapter 1, Title 71, Revised Statutes, is amended
 1-7     by adding Article 4447dd to read as follows:
 1-8           Art. 4447dd.  AUTHORITY OF STATE AGENCY TO REPORT TO
 1-9     REGULATED INDUSTRIES ON VIOLATIONS.  A state agency may provide a
1-10     regulated industry or an entity representing a regulated industry a
1-11     summary of common and significant violations of environmental or
1-12     health and safety laws by members of that industry, other than
1-13     violations disclosed to the agency under the Texas Environmental,
1-14     Health, and Safety Audit Privilege Act (Article 4447cc, Vernon's
1-15     Texas Civil Statutes), in order to help prevent future violations.
1-16           SECTION 2.  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,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.