1-1 By: Haley S.B. No. 98
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 12, 1993; January 13, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
1-4 January 14, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 7, Nays 0; January 14, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Haley x
1-9 Moncrief x
1-10 Ellis x
1-11 Montford x
1-12 Shapiro x
1-13 Truan x
1-14 Turner x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and organization
1-18 of the County Park Compost Program.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be known and cited as
1-21 the County Park Compost Program Act.
1-22 SECTION 2. PURPOSE. It is the intent of the legislature
1-23 that those counties having county parks and wild or landscaped
1-24 recreational areas shall bring their land use into compliance with
1-25 present or soon-to-be accepted standards of economic and
1-26 ecologically sound and prudent practices and policies.
1-27 SECTION 3. CREATION. In furtherance of the goals outlined
1-28 above, the County Park Compost Program is created.
1-29 SECTION 4. IMPLEMENTATION. A county desiring to participate
1-30 in the program shall, by order of the county commissioners court,
1-31 on or after the effective date of this Act and before the next
1-32 countywide election, designate one person in the personnel division
1-33 of the county assigned to the care and maintenance of county parks
1-34 and wild or landscaped recreational areas as County Park Compost
1-35 Program Coordinator, who shall devote as much working time as is
1-36 necessary and have as much assistance as may be required to
1-37 accomplish the purposes of the program.
1-38 SECTION 5. FUNDING. The county commissioners court is
1-39 authorized to seek bequests, donations, grants, and other money,
1-40 goods, and services from federal, state, and private sources to
1-41 finance and further the goals of the program, but it may not levy
1-42 any tax nor be the recipient of any legislative appropriation
1-43 whatsoever, nor is the state liable for debts or other obligations
1-44 incurred by a county in implementing or preparing to implement this
1-45 Act.
1-46 SECTION 6. REPORT. A report on county compost activity
1-47 shall be presented to the commissioners court at least annually.
1-48 SECTION 7. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
1-49 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-50 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-51 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-52 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-53 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-54 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 Austin,
1-57 Texas
1-58 January 14, 1993
1-59 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-60 President of the Senate
1-61 Sir:
1-62 We, your Committee on Administration to which was referred S.B.
1-63 No. 98, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-64 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-65 pass and be printed.
1-66 Haley,
1-67 Chairman
1-68 WITNESSES
2-1 No witnesses appeared to testify for, against, or on the bill.