By Kamel, et al. H.B. No. 160
74R994 DRH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of litter by certain 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 of
1-7 100,000 <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.
1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-17 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-18 Amend H.B. 160 as follows:
1-19 On page 1, lines 6 and 7 strike "with a population of 100,000
1-20 <one million> or more" and substitute "<with a population of one
1-21 million or more>"
1-22 Gutierrez