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Natural Resource Conservation 2-3 Commission shall: 2-4 (1) determine which state statutes and agency rules 2-5 are superseded by Section 382.144, Health and Safety Code, as added 2-6 by this Act; and 2-7 (2) prepare a report regarding which state statutes 2-8 may be repealed or amended to clarify the applicability of the 2-9 commission's rules adopted under Section 382.144, Health and Safety 2-10 Code, as added by this Act. 2-11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.