1-1  By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 376
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 11, 1995; April 11, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  April 28, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 28, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to municipal solid waste disposal fees.
    1-9        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-10        SECTION 1.  Section 361.013, Health and Safety Code, is
   1-11  amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-12        (h)  The commission may not charge a fee under Subsection (a)
   1-13  whenever the disposal facility has donated the cost of disposal of
   1-14  solid waste to a municipality, county, or other political
   1-15  subdivision of this state in connection with solid waste resulting
   1-16  from a public entity's effort to protect the public health and
   1-17  safety of the community from the effects of a natural or man-made
   1-18  disaster or of structures which have been contributing to drug
   1-19  trafficking or other crimes.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-25  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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