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.