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1-31     repealed.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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