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                                                                  S.B. No. 784




AN ACT

relating to the acceptance by the Texas Commission on Environmental 
Quality of certain emissions reductions in exchange for other 
emissions reductions.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 382.0172, Health and 
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c)  The commission may authorize or allow substitution of 
emissions reductions under Subsection (b) only if:
		(1)  reductions in emissions of one air contaminant for 
which the area has been designated as nonattainment are substituted 
for reductions in emissions of another air contaminant for which 
the area has been designated as nonattainment; or [and]
		(2)  the commission finds that the substitution will 
clearly result in greater health benefits for the community as a 
whole than would reductions in emissions at the original facility.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 784 passed the Senate on 
April 28, 2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 784 passed the House on 
May 25, 2005, by a non-record vote.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor