1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1298
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to a prohibition on a requirement for air dispersion
 1-9     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 382.058, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-13           (d)  If the commission considers air dispersion modeling
1-14     information in the course of adopting an exemption under Section
1-15     382.057 for a concrete plant that performs wet  batching, dry
1-16     batching, or central mixing, the commission may not require that a
1-17     person who qualifies for the exemption conduct air dispersion
1-18     modeling before beginning construction of a concrete plant, and
1-19     evidence regarding air dispersion modeling may not be submitted at
1-20     a hearing under Section 382.056.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The heading to Section 382.058, Health and Safety
1-22     Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-23           Sec. 382.058.  PROVISIONS RELATING TO [LIMITATION ON]
1-24     COMMISSION EXEMPTION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN CONCRETE PLANTS.
1-25           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.
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