By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 487
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the timing of an application for a solid waste permit.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 361.066, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-4     amended by amending Subsection (a)  and adding Subsection (c) to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  An applicant must submit any portion of an application
 1-7     that the commission determines is necessary to make the application
 1-8     administratively complete not later than the deadline set by the
 1-9     commission under Subsection (c) [270th day after the applicant
1-10     receives notice from the commission that the additional information
1-11     or material is needed].
1-12           (c)  The commission by rule shall establish a deadline for
1-13     the submission of additional information or material after the
1-14     applicant receives notice from the commission that the information
1-15     or material is needed to make the application administratively
1-16     complete.
1-17           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-18           (b)  Subsections (a) and (c), Section 361.066, Health and
1-19     Safety Code, as amended and added by this Act, apply only to an
1-20     application submitted on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.