By:  Bailey                                           H.B. No. 1536
       73R2553 MI-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the prohibition of discrimination in the provision of
    1-3  certain solid waste services or subsidies for solid waste services
    1-4  in certain municipalities.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 363, Health and Safety
    1-7  Code, is amended by adding Section 363.120 to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 363.120.  MUNICIPAL FEES FOR SOLID WASTE SERVICES FOR
    1-9  RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS; DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.  (a)  If a
   1-10  municipality with a population of 1.5 million or more or a solid
   1-11  waste management service that has contracted with a municipality
   1-12  with a population of 1.5 million or more provides solid waste
   1-13  services or a subsidy for solid waste services to one residential
   1-14  customer or to one class of residential customers in the
   1-15  municipality, the municipality or the solid waste management
   1-16  service must provide the same solid waste services or the same
   1-17  subsidy to all residential customers and to all classes of
   1-18  residential customers in the municipality.  The municipality or the
   1-19  solid waste management service may not charge a fee to a
   1-20  residential customer for the provision of solid waste services.
   1-21        (b)  In this section, "residential customer" includes a
   1-22  single family home, duplex, triplex, fourplex, cooperative,
   1-23  condominium, townhouse, multifamily, and apartment customer, but
   1-24  does not include a commercial, governmental, or industrial
    2-1  customer.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-3        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.