By Torres H.B. No. 1694
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to litter abatement of self-generated litter.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 365.011, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Subdivision (9) to read as follows:
1-6 (9) "Self-generated litter or self-generated other
1-7 solid waste" means litter or other solid waste generated by a
1-8 natural person or that person's agent on land owned by that person.
1-9 SECTION 2. Subsection (j), Section 365.0012, Health and
1-10 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-11 (j) This section does not apply to the <disposal of, or>
1-12 temporary storage for future legal disposal of<,> self-generated
1-13 litter or self-generated other solid waste by a natural person on
1-14 land owned by that person or that person's agent.
1-15 SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause,
1-16 or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
1-17 invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
1-18 it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
1-19 have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
1-20 the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
1-21 declared invalid.
1-22 SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on
1-23 September 1, 1995.
2-1 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-2 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.