By: Ellis S.B. No. 376 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to municipal solid waste disposal fees. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 361.013, Health and Safety Code, is 1-4 amended by adding subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-5 (h) The commission may not charge a fee under Subsection (a) 1-6 whenever the disposal facility has donated the cost of disposal of 1-7 solid waste to a municipality, county, or other political 1-8 subdivision of this state in connection with solid waste resulting 1-9 from a public entity's effort to protect the public health and 1-10 safety of the community from the effects of a natural or man-made 1-11 disaster, or structures which have been contributing to drug 1-12 trafficking or other crimes. 1-13 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.