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.