SRC-TJG, JEC, MSY S.B. 1091 78(R)BILL ANALYSIS Senate Research CenterS.B. 1091 By: Shapiro State Affairs 8/25/2003 Enrolled DIGEST AND PURPOSE Current law requires the General Land Office (GLO) to provide support to the Recycling Market Development Board (RMDB), and requires the GLO commissioner to serve as the RMDB chairman. S.B. 1091 removes GLO and the Texas Department of Commerce from the RMDB, provides an alternative chairman, and amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act by updating the names of various affected state agencies. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, institution, or agency. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Subsection (e), Health and Safety Code, by deleting the General Land Office (GLO) from the list of entities whose representatives must be part of an advisory task force convened under certain circumstances. SECTION 2. Amends Subsection (a), Health and Safety Code, as follows: (a) Deletes the commissioner of the GLO, the executive director of the General Services Commission, and the executive director of the Texas Department of Commerce from the list of persons who are on the Recycling Market Development Board (RMDB), and adds the executive director of the Texas Building and Procurement Commission. Makes conforming and nonsubstantive changes. SECTION 3. Repealer: Subsection (d), Health and Safety Code (requiring the GLO to provide RMDB with support). Repealer: Section 361.424 (Recycling Awareness Campaign), Health and Safety Code. SECTION 4. (a) Requires the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to assume the office of presiding officer of RMDB on this Act's effective date if the GLO commissioner or the executive director of the Texas Department of Economic Development is or is scheduled to become the presiding officer on the effective date. Requires the TCEQ chairman to serve in that capacity until the next regularly scheduled rotation of service in that office under Section 361.423(a), Health and Safety Code. (b) Effective date: September 1, 2003.