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.