By Krusee                                        H.B. No. 990

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                                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;

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.