By Armbrister                                         S.B. No. 1317
         76R7125 JJT-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the adoption of a clean fuel fleet program.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 382, Health and Safety
 1-5     Code, is amended by adding Section 382.144 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 382.144.  CLEAN FUEL FLEET PROGRAM; IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
 1-7     AMENDMENTS.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other law, in accordance with
 1-8     Subsection (b),  the commission:
 1-9                 (1)  by rule shall adopt a program governing the use of
1-10     fuel by motor vehicles that are operated as a fleet by a private
1-11     operator, state agency, or political subdivision; and
1-12                 (2)  shall amend the state's air quality state
1-13     implementation plan for achieving and maintaining compliance with
1-14     federal ambient air quality standards under the federal Clean Air
1-15     Act (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.).
1-16           (b)  The rules and plan as amended under Subsection (a)  must
1-17     include requirements and standards sufficient for the state to meet
1-18     the clean fuel fleet provisions of 42 U.S.C. Section 7586 and
1-19     regulations adopted by the United States Environmental Protection
1-20     Agency under that section as that section and those regulations
1-21     existed on September 1, 1999.
1-22           (c)  This section and the rules adopted under this section
1-23     supersede any other law of this state or rule of any state agency
1-24     related to fuel requirements for vehicles to the extent the fuel
 2-1     requirements are intended to comply with federal law.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation
 2-3     Commission shall:
 2-4                 (1)  determine which state statutes and agency rules
 2-5     are superseded by Section 382.144, Health and Safety Code, as added
 2-6     by this Act; and
 2-7                 (2)  prepare a report regarding which state statutes
 2-8     may be repealed or amended to clarify the applicability of the
 2-9     commission's rules adopted under Section 382.144, Health and Safety
2-10     Code, as added by this Act.
2-11           (b)  The commission shall present the report to the governor,
2-12     lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the house of
2-13     representatives on or before September 1, 2000.
2-14           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-15           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.