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.