By Rangel                                             H.B. No. 1627
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the validation of certain acts and proceedings of
    1-3  certain counties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Title 28, Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
    1-6  Article 974d-44 to read as follows:
    1-7        Art. 974d-44.  VALIDATION OF COUNTY ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
    1-8  REGARDING SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
    1-9        Sec. 1.  APPLICATION.  This article applies only to a county
   1-10  with a population of 1,000 or less.
   1-11        Sec. 2.  PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED.  The governmental acts and
   1-12  proceedings of a county that occurred before January 1, 1995,
   1-13  relating to the Solid Waste Disposal Act, Chapter 361, Health and
   1-14  Safety Code, are validated on the dates they occurred.  The acts
   1-15  and proceedings may not be held invalid because they were not
   1-16  performed in accordance with the procedural or other requirements
   1-17  of Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code, or other law.
   1-18        Sec. 3.  EFFECT ON LITIGATION.  This article does not apply
   1-19  to any matter that on the effective date of this article:
   1-20              (1)  is involved in litigation if the litigation
   1-21  ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final
   1-22  judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
   1-23              (2)  has been held invalid by a final judgment of a
    2-1  court of competent jurisdiction.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-7  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-8  passage, and it is so enacted.