By: Birdwell S.B. No. 534
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the notice of a hearing to adopt a proposed rule under
the Texas Clean Air Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 382.017(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The commission shall provide notice of a hearing to
adopt a proposed rule under this chapter on the commission's
Internet website, and may provide notice of the hearing by other
means, including by electronic transmission or newspaper
publication. Notice of a scheduled hearing under this subsection
must:
(1) include the date, time, place, and purpose of the
hearing for the proposed rule; and
(2) be provided not later than the 20th day before the
date scheduled for the hearing. [If the rule will have statewide
effect, notice of the date, time, place, and purpose of the hearing
shall be published one time at least 20 days before the scheduled
date of the hearing in at least three newspapers, the combined
circulation of which will, in the commission's judgment, give
reasonable circulation throughout the state. If the rule will have
effect in only a part of the state, the notice shall be published
one time at least 20 days before the scheduled date of the hearing
in a newspaper of general circulation in the area to be affected.]
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a hearing to adopt a proposed rule that is scheduled by the Texas
Commission on Environmental Quality to occur on or after September
21, 2019. A hearing to adopt a proposed rule that is scheduled by
the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to occur before
September 21, 2019, is governed by the law in effect at the time the
hearing was scheduled to occur, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.