By: Brimer H.B. No. 459 73R1460 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the location of certain solid waste disposal 1-3 facilities. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1021 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.1021. PROHIBITION ON PERMIT FOR LANDFILL NEAR 1-8 DRINKING WATER SUPPLY. The commission by rule shall prohibit the 1-9 issuance of a permit for a new solid waste landfill if any part of 1-10 the landfill is to be located within 1,000 feet of a surface water 1-11 body used for a public drinking water supply or of an open 1-12 watercourse that feeds that body. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to an application for a 1-14 permit for a solid waste landfill that is filed with the Texas 1-15 Water Commission or its successor on or after the effective date of 1-16 this Act. 1-17 SECTION 3. 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.