By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 726
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the use by state agencies of biosolids derived from
    1-2  sludge.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0221 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 361.0221.  USE OF BIOSOLIDS DERIVED FROM SLUDGE.  (a)  A
    1-7  state agency, as defined in Section 315.002, Government Code, shall
    1-8  require the use of biosolids derived or produced from domestic
    1-9  wastewater treatment plant sludge in any agency project that
   1-10  requires fertilization or soil amendments.  Such biosolid product
   1-11  and use must be in compliance with all state and federal
   1-12  regulations, including those promulgated under this chapter and 40
   1-13  C.F.R. Part 503.
   1-14        (b)  The commission may by rule provide for exceptions to the
   1-15  requirements of this section.
   1-16        (c)  In this section, "biosolids" means domestic municipal
   1-17  wastewater sludges treated by composting, heat drying, alkaline
   1-18  stabilization, or other technologies approved by the U. S.
   1-19  Environmental Protection Agency and the commission which render the
   1-20  product suitable for beneficial use.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.