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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