1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1954

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed May 10, 1997; May 12, 1997, read first

 1-3     time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; May 16, 1997,

 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1954                   By:  Brown

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the regulation of used oil filter containers.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Chapter 371, Health and Safety Code, is amended

1-12     by adding Subchapter E to read as follows:

1-13                 SUBCHAPTER E.  HANDLING OF USED OIL FILTER

1-14           Sec. 371.081.  USED OIL FILTER GENERATORS AND COLLECTORS.

1-15     (a)  A person may not generate, collect, transport, process, or

1-16     recycle a used oil filter in a manner that endangers or damages the

1-17     public health or welfare or the environment or intentionally or

1-18     knowingly place a used oil filter containing oil on land.

1-19           (b)  A used oil filter generator may store used oil filters

1-20     on-site in containers that do not in the aggregate have a volume of

1-21     more than 330 gallons without commission approval and without

1-22     registering as a storage facility.

1-23           (c)  A used oil filter collector may store used oil filters

1-24     on-site in containers that do not in the aggregate have a volume of

1-25     more than 330 gallons without commission approval and without

1-26     registering as a storage facility.

1-27           (d)  The containers to be used in accordance with Subsections

1-28     (b) and (c) must be securely closed, waterproof, nonleaking, in

1-29     good condition, and labeled "Used Oil Filters."

1-30           (e)  A person must remove from service or must repair any

1-31     container used for storage of used oil filters that is found to be

1-32     leaking or in poor condition.

1-33           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-34           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-35     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-36     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-37     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-38     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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