75R6738 JJT-D
By Bosse, Krusee H.B. No. 717
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 717:
By Jackson C.S.H.B. No. 717
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposal or temporary storage of litter or solid
1-3 waste.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 365.012(j), Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (j) This section does not apply to an individual's [the]
1-8 disposal of, or temporary storage for future disposal of, litter or
1-9 other solid waste if:
1-10 (1) the litter or waste is generated on land the
1-11 individual owns;
1-12 (2) the disposal or storage occurs on land the
1-13 individual owns; and
1-14 (3) the disposal is not for a commercial purpose [by a
1-15 person on land owned by that person, or by that person's agent].
1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.