1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 707
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 1999; March 1, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     March 18, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown
 1-7     Amend S.B. No. 707 by striking SECTION 1 and substituting the
 1-8     following:
 1-9           "SECTION 1.  Section 86.0191, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-10     amended to read as follows:
1-11           Sec. 86.0191.  EXEMPTION.  (a)  The commission shall, by
1-12     rule, exempt entities from the requirements of this chapter
1-13     regarding permits and fees required for disturbing or taking marl,
1-14     sand, gravel, shell, and mudshell for noncommercial purposes when
1-15     such disturbances or takings occur for maintenance projects or
1-16     construction of new utility lines carried out by public utilities.
1-17           (b)  Public utilities shall make every reasonable effort to
1-18     use best management practices established by the commission."
1-19                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20                                   AN ACT
1-21     relating to an exemption from sand and gravel permit requirements.
1-22           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-23           SECTION 1.  Section 86.0191, Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-24     amended to read as follows:
1-25           Sec. 86.0191.  EXEMPTION.  The commission shall, by rule,
1-26     exempt entities from the requirements of this chapter regarding
1-27     permits and fees required for disturbing or taking marl, sand,
1-28     gravel, shell, and mudshell for noncommercial purposes when such
1-29     disturbances or takings occur for maintenance projects or
1-30     construction of new utility lines carried out by public utilities.
1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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