By: Brown S.B. No. 1306
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the definition of hazardous waste.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subdivision (12), Section 361.003, Health and
1-4 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (12) "Hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or a
1-6 combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity,
1-7 concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics
1-8 may:
1-9 (A) cause, or significantly contribute to, an
1-10 increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or
1-11 incapacitating reversible, illness;
1-12 (B) pose a substantial present or potential
1-13 hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated,
1-14 stored, transported, or disposed of or otherwise managed; and
1-15 (C) is identified by the commission as a
1-16 hazardous waste by rule. Commission rules implementing this
1-17 section shall be consistent with, and not more stringent than
1-18 necessary to maintain state program authorization under,
1-19 [identified or listed as a hazardous waste by the administrator of
1-20 the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the federal
1-21 Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by] the Resource Conservation
1-22 and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et
1-23 seq.).
1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.