1-1 By: Howard (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 1960
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;
1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 17, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to abolishing the pollution prevention council.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 361.0215(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) The committee shall advise the commission[, pollution
1-13 prevention council,] and interagency coordination council on:
1-14 (1) [matters the council is required to consider under
1-15 Section 361.021(d);]
1-16 [(2)] the appropriate organization of state agencies
1-17 and the financial and technical resources required to aid the state
1-18 in its efforts to promote waste reduction and minimization;
1-19 (2) [(3)] the development of public awareness programs
1-20 to educate citizens about hazardous waste and the appropriate
1-21 disposal of hazardous waste and hazardous materials that are used
1-22 and collected by households;
1-23 (3) [(4)] the provision of technical assistance to
1-24 local governments for the development of waste management
1-25 strategies designed to assist small quantity generators of
1-26 hazardous waste; and
1-27 (4) [(5)] other possible programs to more effectively
1-28 implement the state's hierarchy of preferred waste management
1-29 technologies as set forth in Section 361.023(a).
1-30 SECTION 2. Section 361.0211, Health and Safety Code, is
1-31 repealed.
1-32 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-33 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-34 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-35 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-36 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-37 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-38 passage, and it is so enacted.
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