By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1147
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the application of litter abatement regulations to
    1-2  self-generated litter.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 365.011, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Subdivision (10) to read as follows:
    1-6              (10)  "Self-generated litter" or "self-generated other
    1-7  solid waste" means litter or other solid waste generated by a
    1-8  person or that person's agent on land owned by that person.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Subsection (j), Section 365.012, Health and
   1-10  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-11        (j)  This section does not apply to the disposal of<,> or
   1-12  temporary storage for future legal disposal of self-generated<,>
   1-13  litter or self-generated other solid waste by a person on land
   1-14  owned by that person and used for residential or agricultural
   1-15  purposes or by that person's agent.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  If any section, sentence, clause, or part of this
   1-17  Act shall for any reason be held invalid, such invalidity shall not
   1-18  affect the remaining portions of the Act, and it is hereby declared
   1-19  to be the intention of this legislature to have passed each
   1-20  section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of the fact that
   1-21  any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be declared
   1-22  invalid.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.