By: Lucio S.B. No. 1147
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to litter abatement of self-generated litter.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 365.011, Health and Safety Code, is
1-4 amended by adding Subdivision (10) to read as follows:
1-5 (10) "Self-generated litter or self-generated other
1-6 solid waste" means litter or other solid waste generated by a
1-7 person or that person's agent on land owned by that person.
1-8 SECTION 2. Subsection (j), Section 365.0012, Health and
1-9 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-10 (j) This section does not apply to the disposal of, or
1-11 temporary storage for future legal disposal of <,> self-generated
1-12 litter or self-generated other solid waste by a person on land
1-13 owned by that person and used for residential or commercial
1-14 agricultural purposes or by that person's agent.
1-15 SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY. If any section, sentence, clause,
1-16 or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such
1-17 invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Act, and
1-18 it is hereby declared to be the intention of this legislature to
1-19 have passed each section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of
1-20 the fact that any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be
1-21 declared invalid.
1-22 SECTION 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect on
1-23 September 1, 1995.
2-1 SECTION 5. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation
2-2 and the 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.