By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1298
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a prohibition on a requirement for air dispersion
 1-2     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-6           (d)  If the commission considers air dispersion modeling
 1-7     information in the course of adopting an exemption under Section
 1-8     382.057 for a concrete plant that performs wet  batching, dry
 1-9     batching, or central mixing, the commission may not require that a
1-10     person who qualifies for the exemption conduct air dispersion
1-11     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant, and
1-12     evidence regarding air dispersion modeling may not be submitted at
1-13     a hearing under Section 382.056.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The heading to Section 382.058, Health and Safety
1-15     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 382.058.  PROVISIONS RELATING TO [LIMITATION ON]
1-17     COMMISSION EXEMPTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN CONCRETE PLANTS.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.