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.