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.