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.