74R10656 E
By Dukes H.B. No. 2651
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2651:
By Dukes C.S.H.B. No. 2651
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to pollutant source reduction and waste minimization.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 361.505, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-6 (f) A person may include recycling, reuse, treatment, or
1-7 disposal activities in the waste minimization portion of the plan
1-8 in place of other source reduction or waste minimization activities
1-9 if recycling, reuse, treatment, or disposal produces a more
1-10 advantageous cost-benefit ratio in accomplishing the goals and
1-11 policies of this subchapter. This subsection does not alter or
1-12 replace the requirements of Subsection (a) of this section, but is
1-13 intended to create an additional option such as those contained in
1-14 Subsection (b) of this section.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.