By: Brown S.B. No. 1306
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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. Section 361.003(12), Health and Safety Code, is
1-4 amended to read as follows:
1-5 (12) "Hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or combination
1-6 of solid wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or
1-7 physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may:
1-8 (A) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase
1-9 in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or
1-10 incapacitating reversible, illness; or
1-11 (B) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to
1-12 human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored,
1-13 transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed [identified or
1-14 listed as a hazardous waste by the administrator of the United
1-15 States Environmental Protection Agency under the federal Solid
1-16 Waste Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and
1-17 Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq.)].
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.