By Conley H.B. No. 806
74R3482 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the identification of origin of municipal, industrial,
1-3 or hazardous waste accepted for disposal.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety
1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0355 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 361.0355. IDENTIFICATION OF ORIGIN REQUIRED: MUNICIPAL,
1-8 INDUSTRIAL, AND HAZARDOUS WASTE. The commission by rule shall
1-9 require the operator of a solid waste facility for the disposal of
1-10 municipal, industrial, or hazardous waste to record by zip code the
1-11 origin of waste accepted for disposal at the facility and to report
1-12 that information to the commission in a manner prescribed by the
1-13 commission.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.