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.