By Madla S.B. No. 425
74R3520 MI-D
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. Sections 361.013(a) and (b), Health and Safety
1-5 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the commission
1-7 <department> shall charge a fee on municipal solid waste that is
1-8 disposed of within this state. The commission shall set a fee for
1-9 disposal of municipal solid waste at a landfill in an amount not
1-10 less than the amount of the fee set for commercial disposal of
1-11 Class I nonhazardous industrial solid waste under Section
1-12 361.136(b) <fee is $1.25 per ton received for disposal at a
1-13 landfill if the solid waste is measured by weight. If the solid
1-14 waste is measured by volume, the fee for compacted solid waste is
1-15 40 cents per cubic yard or, for uncompacted solid waste, 25 cents
1-16 per cubic yard received for disposal at a landfill>. The
1-17 commission <department> shall set the fee for sludge or similar
1-18 waste applied to the land for beneficial use on a dry weight basis
1-19 and for solid waste received at an incinerator or a shredding and
1-20 composting facility at half the fee set for solid waste received
1-21 for disposal at a landfill. The commission <department> may charge
1-22 comparable fees for other means of solid waste disposal that are
1-23 used.
1-24 (b) The commission <department> may raise or lower the fees
2-1 established under Subsection (a) in accordance with commission
2-2 <department> spending levels established by the legislature. The
2-3 fee for disposal of municipal solid waste at a landfill may not be
2-4 lowered below the fee set for commercial disposal of Class I
2-5 nonhazardous industrial solid waste under Section 361.136(b).
2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.