H.B. No. 160
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of litter by counties.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 365.017(a), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The commissioners court of a county <with a population
    1-7  of one million or more> may adopt regulations to control the
    1-8  disposal of litter and the removal of illegally dumped litter from
    1-9  private property in unincorporated areas of that county. The
   1-10  commissioners court may not adopt regulations under this section
   1-11  concerning the disposal of recyclable materials as defined in
   1-12  Chapter 361 of the Health and Safety Code.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.