By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 1008 75R4946 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the regulation of commercial burning of hazardous waste 1-3 by cement kilns. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1025 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.1025. PROHIBITION ON BURNING IN CERTAIN AREAS. The 1-8 commission by rule shall prohibit the commercial burning of 1-9 hazardous waste by a cement kiln in a standard metropolitan 1-10 statistical area with a population of 1 million or more. 1-11 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-12 (b) Except as provided by this subsection, Section 361.1025, 1-13 Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies to an 1-14 application for a permit that is pending before the Texas Natural 1-15 Resource Conservation Commission on September 1, 1997, or filed 1-16 with the commission on or after September 1, 1997. On September 1, 1-17 1998, an authorization in a permit in effect on September 1, 1997, 1-18 for the commercial burning of hazardous waste as described in 1-19 Section 361.1025, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, 1-20 expires. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.