By Howard                                             H.B. No. 1960

         75R6718 JJT-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to abolishing the pollution prevention council.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 361.0215(b), Health and Safety Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The committee shall advise the commission[, pollution

 1-7     prevention council,] and interagency coordination council on:

 1-8                 (1)  [matters the council is required to consider under

 1-9     Section 361.021(d);]

1-10                 [(2)]  the appropriate organization of state agencies

1-11     and the financial and technical resources required to aid the state

1-12     in its efforts to promote waste reduction and minimization;

1-13                 (2) [(3)]  the development of public awareness programs

1-14     to educate citizens about hazardous waste and the appropriate

1-15     disposal of hazardous waste and hazardous materials that are used

1-16     and collected by households;

1-17                 (3) [(4)]  the provision of technical assistance to

1-18     local governments for the development of waste management

1-19     strategies designed to assist small quantity generators of

1-20     hazardous waste; and

1-21                 (4) [(5)]  other possible programs to more effectively

1-22     implement the state's hierarchy of preferred waste management

1-23     technologies as set forth in Section 361.023(a).

1-24           SECTION 2.  Section 361.0211, Health and Safety Code, is

 2-1     repealed.

 2-2           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-3     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-4     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-5     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-6     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-7     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-8     passage, and it is so enacted.