By Bosse H.B. No. 717
75R555 JJT-D
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 from the
1-11 individual's residence or on land the individual owns; and
1-12 (2) the disposal or storage occurs on land the
1-13 individual owns [by a person on land owned by that person, or by
1-14 that person's agent].
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.