74R9541 MI-F
          By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 2944
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2944:
          By Dukes                                          C.S.H.B. No. 2944
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to municipal solid waste disposal fees.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 361.013, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Except as provided by Subsections <Subsection> (e), (f),
    1-8  and (h), the commission <department> shall charge a fee on solid
    1-9  waste that is disposed of within this state.  The fee is $1.25 per
   1-10  ton received for disposal at a landfill if the solid waste is
   1-11  measured by weight.  If the solid waste is measured by volume, the
   1-12  fee for compacted solid waste is 40 cents per cubic yard or, for
   1-13  uncompacted solid waste, 25 cents per cubic yard received for
   1-14  disposal at a landfill.  The commission <department> shall set the
   1-15  fee for sludge or similar waste applied to the land for beneficial
   1-16  use on a dry weight basis and for solid waste received at an
   1-17  incinerator or a shredding and composting facility at half the fee
   1-18  set for solid waste received for disposal at a landfill.  The
   1-19  commission <department> may charge comparable fees for other means
   1-20  of solid waste disposal that are used.
   1-21        (h)  The commission may not charge a fee under Subsection (a)
   1-22  on solid waste resulting from a public entity's effort to protect
   1-23  the public health and safety of the community from the effects of a
    2-1  natural or man-made disaster or from structures that have been
    2-2  contributing to drug trafficking or other crimes if the disposal
    2-3  facility at which that solid waste is offered for disposal has
    2-4  donated to a municipality, county, or other political subdivision
    2-5  the cost of disposing of that waste.
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.