By: Ratliff S.B. No. 1471 99S0836/1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the regulation of gasoline volatility and sulfur 1-2 content. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 382.037, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Subsection (o) to read as follows: 1-6 (o) The commission may not adopt, implement, or enforce 1-7 rules that could result in the increased use of the gasoline 1-8 additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), including rules 1-9 specifying gasoline volatility and sulfur content, unless the 1-10 commission first conducts a comprehensive environmental and 1-11 economic impact analysis on the proposed rule and certifies in 1-12 writing to the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and the House 1-13 Committee on Natural Resources that such gasoline will reduce ozone 1-14 levels by at least 25 percent of the amount required to demonstrate 1-15 attainment and maintenance of the ozone standard in each county 1-16 where the rule is applied and that the benefits of the proposed 1-17 rule outweigh other environmental and economic costs. In the 1-18 comprehensive environmental and economic impact analysis, the 1-19 commission shall specifically address the potential environmental 1-20 and economic consequences that could result from the increased use 1-21 of methyl tertiary butyl ether as a result of the proposed rule. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.