By: Truan, Zaffirini S.B. No. 432 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the validation of acts and proceedings of certain 1-2 counties regarding nonhazardous solid waste disposal. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Title 28, Revised Statutes, is amended by adding 1-5 Article 974d-44 to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 974d-44. VALIDATION OF COUNTY ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS 1-7 REGARDING NONHAZARDOUS SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL 1-8 Sec. 1. APPLICATION. This article applies only to a county 1-9 with a population of 1,000 or less. 1-10 Sec. 2. PROCEEDINGS VALIDATED. The governmental acts and 1-11 proceedings of a county that occurred before January 1, 1995, 1-12 relating to the prohibition of the disposal of nonhazardous solid 1-13 waste, the siting or operation of a nonhazardous solid waste 1-14 disposal facility, or the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste are 1-15 validated on the dates they occurred. The proceedings, orders, and 1-16 ordinances may not be held invalid because they were not performed 1-17 in accordance with the procedural requirements of Chapter 361, 1-18 Health and Safety Code, or other law. 1-19 Sec. 3. EFFECT ON LITIGATION. This article does not apply 1-20 to any matter that on the effective date of this article: 1-21 (1) is involved in litigation if the litigation 1-22 ultimately results in the matter being held invalid by a final 1-23 judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or 1-24 (2) has been held invalid by a final judgment of a 2-1 court of competent jurisdiction. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.