1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 235
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 2, 1993; February 2, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 27, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; April 27, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to consideration of recycling availability before issuance
1-22 of municipal landfill permits.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
1-25 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0965 to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 361.0965. CONSIDERATION OF RECYCLING AVAILABILITY
1-27 BEFORE ISSUANCE OF MUNICIPAL LANDFILL PERMIT. Before issuing a
1-28 permit or approving a license for a new landfill for the disposal
1-29 of municipal solid waste that will be located within the service
1-30 area of a recycling facility that is operating or under
1-31 construction, the commission shall consider:
1-32 (1) whether the proposed landfill would receive for
1-33 disposal solid waste that would otherwise be received and processed
1-34 at the recycling facility; and
1-35 (2) whether the recycling facility has or will have
1-36 the capacity within a reasonable amount of time to meet the demand
1-37 for solid waste disposal within the service area of the proposed
1-38 landfill.
1-39 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-40 to an application for a permit issued under Subchapter C, Chapter
1-41 361, Health and Safety Code, or for approval of a license issued
1-42 under Subchapter E, Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code, that is
1-43 received by the Texas Water Commission or its successor on or after
1-44 the effective date of this Act.
1-45 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-46 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-47 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-48 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-49 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-50 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-52 Austin,
1-53 Texas
1-54 April 27, 1993
1-55 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-56 President of the Senate
1-57 Sir:
1-58 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
1-59 No. 235, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-60 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-61 pass and be printed.
1-62 Sims,
1-63 Chairman
1-64 * * * * *
1-65 WITNESSES
1-66 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 235.