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Amend Floor Amendment No. 14 by Janek to CSHB 7 (page 14 of 
the amendments package) by adding the following at the end of that 
amendment:
	(3)  Add the following article, appropriately numbered:                        

ARTICLE ____.  LIQUID WASTE MANAGEMENT
	SECTION __.01.  Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 
Code, is amended by adding Section 361.034 to read as follows:
	Sec. 361.034.  RECORDS AND MANIFESTS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN 
LIQUID WASTES.  (a)  The commission by rule shall require a person 
who generates, collects, conveys, transports, processes, stores, 
or disposes of sewage sludge, water treatment sludge, domestic 
septage, chemical toilet waste, grit trap waste, or grease trap 
waste to keep records and use a uniform manifest as prescribed by 
commission rule to ensure that the waste is transported to an 
appropriate processing, storage, or disposal facility or site 
permitted or authorized for that purpose.
	(b)  The rules must require the person who generates the 
waste, the person who transports the waste, and the person who 
disposes of the waste each to retain, for not less than three years, 
a copy of a transportation manifest that records the generator, 
transporter, and disposal site and method.
	(c)  The rules must require that aggregate amounts of waste 
recorded on the manifests required under this section match the 
amounts of waste reported to the commission annually.  The 
commission may require copies of manifests to be submitted with 
reports to the commission or at other times.
	SECTION __.02.  The Texas Commission on Environmental 
Quality shall adopt rules under Section 361.034, Health and Safety 
Code, as added by this article, as soon as practicable so that the 
rules take effect not later than July 1, 2004.
	SECTION __.03.  This article takes effect immediately if 
this Act receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to 
each house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas 
Constitution.  If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for 
immediate effect, this article takes effect February 1, 2004.