By Jackson, Gray                                      H.B. No. 2049
       74R7675 JJT-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the assessment of civil penalties by the Gulf Coast
    1-3  Waste Disposal Authority.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 3.05(a), Chapter 409, Acts of the 61st
    1-6  Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A person who violates a rule, permit, or order of the
    1-8  authority is subject to a civil penalty of not less than $50 nor
    1-9  more than $1,000 for each violation or for each day of a continuing
   1-10  violation.  The authority may sue to recover the penalty in a
   1-11  district court in the county where the violation occurred.
   1-12  Penalties shall be paid to the authority.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.