By Solomons H.B. No. 1213 75R3520 JJT-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to solid waste landfill permits. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-5 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.0815 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 361.0815. PERSONS AFFECTED BY SOLID WASTE LANDFILL. 1-7 Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall consider as a 1-8 party affected by an application for a solid waste landfill permit 1-9 or a permit for an expansion of a permitted solid waste landfill a 1-10 person who: 1-11 (1) resides two miles or less from the outer perimeter 1-12 of the landfill facility or proposed landfill facility; or 1-13 (2) owns or operates a place of worship, school, 1-14 hospital facility, nursing facility, or child care facility 1-15 located two miles or less from the outer perimeter of the landfill 1-16 facility or proposed landfill facility. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-18 applies only to a proceeding of the Texas Natural Resource 1-19 Conservation Commission that relates to an application for a solid 1-20 waste landfill permit or to a permit for a solid waste landfill to 1-21 be expanded that is filed on or after that date. The affected 1-22 party status of any person in relation to a proceeding of the 1-23 Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission that relates to an 1-24 application filed before the effective date of this Act is 2-1 governed by the law in effect at the time the application was 2-2 filed, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.