By Talton                                             H.B. No. 1998
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to industrial solid waste and hazardous waste management
    1-3  fees.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 361.136, Health and
    1-6  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (c)  The waste management fee shall be based on the total
    1-8  weight or volume of <a waste other than wastes that are disposed of
    1-9  in an underground injection well.  The fee for those wastes shall
   1-10  be based on the dry weight of> the waste.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.