1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 1147
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 15, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the application of litter abatement regulations to
1-9 self-generated litter.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 365.011, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended by adding Subdivision (10) to read as follows:
1-13 (10) "Self-generated litter or self-generated other
1-14 solid waste" means litter or other solid waste generated by a
1-15 person or that person's agent on land owned by that person.
1-16 SECTION 2. Subsection (j), Section 365.012, Health and
1-17 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-18 (j) This section does not apply to the disposal of<,> or
1-19 temporary storage for future legal disposal of self-generated<,>
1-20 litter or self-generated other solid waste by a person on land
1-21 owned by that person and used for residential or commercial
1-22 agricultural purposes or by that person's agent.
1-23 SECTION 3. If any section, sentence, clause, or part of this
1-24 Act shall for any reason be held invalid, such invalidity shall not
1-25 affect the remaining portions of the Act, and it is hereby declared
1-26 to be the intention of this legislature to have passed each
1-27 section, sentence, clause, or part irrespective of the fact that
1-28 any other section, sentence, clause, or part may be declared
1-29 invalid.
1-30 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-31 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-32 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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