1-1  By:  Parker                                           S.B. No. 1044
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 14, 1993,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0;
    1-5  April 14, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Montford           x                               
    1-9        Turner             x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos         x                               
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Ellis              x                               
   1-14        Haley              x                               
   1-15        Moncrief                                       x   
   1-16        Parker             x                               
   1-17        Ratliff            x                               
   1-18        Sims                                           x   
   1-19        Truan              x                               
   1-20        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to equalizing the solid waste disposal fee.
   1-24        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-25        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 361.013, Health and
   1-26  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-27        (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (e), the department
   1-28  shall charge a fee on solid waste that is disposed of within this
   1-29  state.  The fee is $1.50 <the greater of 50 cents> per ton if
   1-30  measured by weight or, if measured by volume, the fee is, for
   1-31  compacted solid waste, 50 cents per cubic yard or, for uncompacted
   1-32  solid waste, 30 <10> cents per cubic yard received for disposal at
   1-33  a landfill.  The department shall set the fee for sludge or similar
   1-34  waste applied to the land for beneficial use on a dry weight basis
   1-35  and for solid waste received at an incinerator or a shredding and
   1-36  composting facility at half the fee set for solid waste received
   1-37  for disposal at a landfill.  The department may charge comparable
   1-38  fees for other means of solid waste disposal that are used.
   1-39        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-44  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-45  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-47                                                         Austin,
   1-48  Texas
   1-49                                                         April 14, 1993
   1-50  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-51  President of the Senate
   1-52  Sir:
   1-53  We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred S.B. No. 1044,
   1-54  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-55  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-56  pass and be printed.
   1-57                                                         Montford,
   1-58  Chairman
   1-59                               * * * * *
   1-60                               WITNESSES
   1-61                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-62  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-63  Name:  Stephen Minick                                          x
   1-64  Representing:  Tx. Water Commission
   1-65  City:  Austin
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