By Howard                                        H.B. No. 473

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                                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 100,000] may by ordinance:

 1-9                 (1)  require a waste hauler who transports waste in

1-10     unincorporated areas of the county to be licensed by the county;

1-11                 (2)  establish requirements for obtaining and renewing

1-12     a waste hauler license;

1-13                 (3)  impose a license issuance or renewal fee in an

1-14     amount that generates annually the approximate amount of revenue

1-15     needed to fund the licensing program for a year;

1-16                 (4)  establish standards governing the transportation

1-17     of waste in unincorporated areas of the county;

1-18                 (5)  establish grounds for suspending or revoking a

1-19     waste hauler license; and

1-20                 (6)  prescribe any other provisions necessary to

1-21     administer the licensing program.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.