By: Maxey H.B. No. 268 73R593 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to control of litter near a landfill. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.115 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 361.115. LITTER CONTROL BY SOLID WASTE LANDFILL. The 1-7 commission by rule shall require the owner or operator of a 1-8 permitted solid waste landfill facility to: 1-9 (1) remove solid waste dumped or scattered on each 1-10 portion of a major road or highway that is owned by the state or a 1-11 political subdivision and that is within two miles of each entrance 1-12 to the facility, including the corresponding right-of-way; and 1-13 (2) prominently display at each entrance to the 1-14 facility a telephone number available to report solid waste dumped 1-15 or scattered along a major road or highway leading to an entrance 1-16 to the facility. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.