By Maxey H.B. No. 3282 76R8905 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. 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.