By: Parker S.B. No. 1044
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to equalizing the solid waste disposal fee.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 361.013, Health and
1-4 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the department
1-6 shall charge a fee on solid waste that is disposed of within this
1-7 state. The fee is $1.50 <the greater of 50 cents> per ton if
1-8 measured by weight or, if measured by volume, the fee is, for
1-9 compacted solid waste, 50 cents per cubic yard or, for uncompacted
1-10 solid waste, 30 <10> cents per cubic yard received for disposal at
1-11 a landfill. The department shall set the fee for sludge or similar
1-12 waste applied to the land for beneficial use on a dry weight basis
1-13 and for solid waste received at an incinerator or a shredding and
1-14 composting facility at half the fee set for solid waste received
1-15 for disposal at a landfill. The department may charge comparable
1-16 fees for other means of solid waste disposal that are used.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.