75R9335 PAM-D
By Howard, Olivo H.B. No. 473
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 473:
By Talton C.S.H.B. No. 473
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the licensing of waste haulers by certain counties.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 368.012, Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 368.012. COUNTY LICENSING AND REGULATION. To protect
1-7 the public health, safety, or welfare, the commissioners court of
1-8 a county with a population of less than 375,000 [100,000] may by
1-9 ordinance:
1-10 (1) require a waste hauler who transports waste in
1-11 unincorporated areas of the county to be licensed by the county;
1-12 (2) establish requirements for obtaining and renewing
1-13 a waste hauler license;
1-14 (3) impose a license issuance or renewal fee in an
1-15 amount that generates annually the approximate amount of revenue
1-16 needed to fund the licensing program for a year;
1-17 (4) establish standards governing the transportation
1-18 of waste in unincorporated areas of the county;
1-19 (5) establish grounds for suspending or revoking a
1-20 waste hauler license; and
1-21 (6) prescribe any other provisions necessary to
1-22 administer the licensing program.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.