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.