By Brown S.B. No. 1298
76R6138 SMH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a prohibition on a requirement for air dispersion
1-3 modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-7 (d) If the commission considers air dispersion modeling
1-8 information in the course of adopting an exemption under Section
1-9 382.057 for a concrete plant that performs wet batching, dry
1-10 batching, or central mixing, the commission may not require that a
1-11 person who qualifies for the exemption conduct air dispersion
1-12 modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant, and
1-13 evidence regarding air dispersion modeling may not be submitted at
1-14 a hearing under Section 382.056.
1-15 SECTION 2. The heading to Section 382.058, Health and Safety
1-16 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-17 Sec. 382.058. PROVISIONS RELATING TO [LIMITATION ON]
1-18 COMMISSION EXEMPTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN CONCRETE PLANTS.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.