74R9399 MI-F
          By Dukes                                              H.B. No. 2945
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2945:
          By Kuempel                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2945
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the state's source reduction and recycling goal.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 361.422(a), (d), and (e), Health and
    1-5  Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  It is the state's goal to reduce <by January 1, 1994,>
    1-7  the amount of municipal solid waste disposed of in this state by at
    1-8  least 40 percent through source reduction and recycling.
    1-9        (d)  For the purpose of measuring progress toward the state
   1-10  source <municipal solid waste> reduction and recycling goal, the
   1-11  department shall use the weight of the total municipal solid waste
   1-12  stream in 1992 <1991> as the base year <a baseline> for comparison.
   1-13  To compute progress toward the state source <municipal solid waste>
   1-14  reduction and recycling goal for a year, the department shall
   1-15  compare the total number of tons disposed in the year under
   1-16  comparison, either by landfilling or by other disposal methods, to
   1-17  the weight of the total municipal solid waste stream <number of
   1-18  tons disposed> in the base year, adjusting for changes in
   1-19  population, tons of solid waste imported and exported, and other
   1-20  relevant changes between the base <baseline> year and the
   1-21  comparison year.
   1-22        (e)  Before January 1, 2001 <1994>, the commission shall
   1-23  determine whether the goal established in Subsection (a) is being
    2-1  achieved.  If the commission finds that the goal is not being
    2-2  achieved, it shall convene an advisory task force consisting of
    2-3  representatives of the commission, the General Land Office, local
    2-4  governments, the Municipal Solid Waste Management and Resource
    2-5  Recovery Advisory Council, and the commercial solid waste disposal
    2-6  industry <and may recommend to the legislature a phased-in ban on
    2-7  the disposal of yard waste in a landfill>.  The task force shall
    2-8  <may> recommend a plan to the legislature for reaching
    2-9  <implementing> the goal established in Subsection (a) <ban after
   2-10  considering how the ban will:>
   2-11              <(1)  affect the state's disposal capacity;>
   2-12              <(2)  affect the economy of the state;>
   2-13              <(3)  affect local governments; and>
   2-14              <(4)  be accepted and adhered to by the citizens of the
   2-15  state>.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.