By: Brown S.B. No. 509 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the immunity from liability of certain property owners 1-2 or operators if their property becomes environmentally 1-3 contaminated. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 361.753, Health and 1-6 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A person may apply to the commission for a certificate 1-8 confirming that the person is an innocent owner or operator. The 1-9 application must include a complete site investigation report that 1-10 demonstrates that: 1-11 (1) the property has become contaminated as a result 1-12 of a release or migration of contaminants from a source or sources 1-13 not located on or at the property; 1-14 (2) the owner or operator has not caused or 1-15 contributed to the source or sources of the contamination referred 1-16 to in Subdivision (1); and 1-17 (3) if the applicant is a person who acquired the 1-18 property for which immunity is sought in the manner described by 1-19 Section 361.752(b), the owner or operator is eligible for immunity 1-20 under Section 361.752(b). 1-21 SECTION 2. 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, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.