By Madla S.B. No. 966 74R4088 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the disposal, reuse, or recycling of cardboard. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.116 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 361.116. LANDFILL DISPOSAL OF CARDBOARD PROHIBITED. 1-7 (a) A landfill permitted under this subchapter may not accept for 1-8 disposal corrugated cardboard or items constructed of corrugated 1-9 cardboard except as permitted by commission rules. 1-10 (b) A landfill may accept corrugated cardboard or items 1-11 constructed of corrugated cardboard only if the cardboard is 1-12 separated from other waste and is accepted only for subsequent 1-13 recycling or reuse. 1-14 (c) The commission shall assist local communities in: 1-15 (1) developing collection systems for waste cardboard; 1-16 (2) establishing or contracting with recycling 1-17 facilities to process collected cardboard; 1-18 (3) establishing programs for reuse of cardboard; and 1-19 (4) contracting with persons for reuse of cardboard. 1-20 (d) The commission shall adopt rules to regulate the 1-21 acceptance of corrugated cardboard by a landfill. The commission 1-22 may allow the disposal of corrugated cardboard if the cardboard is 1-23 not in a condition that would allow its reuse or recycling. 1-24 SECTION 2. (a) Section 361.116, Health and Safety Code, as 2-1 added by this Act, takes effect January 1, 1996. 2-2 (b) The Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission shall 2-3 adopt rules as required by Section 361.116(d), Health and Safety 2-4 Code, as added by this Act, to take effect not later than January 2-5 1, 1996. 2-6 SECTION 3. 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.