1-1     By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1306
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
 1-4     April 6, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 6, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1306                   By:  Brown
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the definition of hazardous waste.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subdivision (12), Section 361.003, Health and
1-13     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-14                 (12)  "Hazardous waste" means a solid waste, or a
1-15     combination of solid wastes, which because of its quantity,
1-16     concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics
1-17     may:
1-18                       (A)  cause, or significantly contribute to, an
1-19     increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or
1-20     incapacitating reversible, illness;
1-21                       (B)  pose a substantial present or potential
1-22     hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated,
1-23     stored, transported, or disposed of or otherwise managed; and
1-24                       (C)  is identified by the commission as a
1-25     hazardous waste by rule.  Commission rules implementing this
1-26     section shall be consistent with, and not more stringent than
1-27     necessary to maintain state program authorization under,
1-28     [identified or listed as a hazardous waste by the administrator of
1-29     the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the federal
1-30     Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended by] the Resource Conservation
1-31     and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et
1-32     seq.).
1-33           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-34     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-38     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-39     passage, and it is so enacted.
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