78R5511 SGA-F
By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1091
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the termination of certain duties of the General Land
Office relating to the Recycling Market Development Board and the
recycling awareness campaign.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 361.422(e), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(e) Before January 1, 1994, the commission shall determine
whether the goal established in Subsection (a) is being achieved.
If the commission finds that the goal is not being achieved, it
shall convene an advisory task force consisting of representatives
of the commission, [the General Land Office,] local governments,
the Municipal Solid Waste Management and Resource Recovery Advisory
Council, and the commercial solid waste disposal industry and may
recommend to the legislature a phased-in ban on the disposal of yard
waste in a landfill. The task force may recommend a plan to the
legislature for implementing the ban after considering how the ban
will:
(1) affect the state's disposal capacity;
(2) affect the economy of the state;
(3) affect local governments; and
(4) be accepted and adhered to by the citizens of the
state.
SECTION 2. Section 361.423(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The Recycling Market Development Board consists of
[commissioner of the General Land Office,] the chairman of the
commission, the executive director of the Texas Building and
Procurement [General Services] Commission, and the executive
director of the Texas Department of Economic Development [Commerce
shall constitute the Recycling Market Development Board]. The
[commissioner of the General Land Office serves as presiding
officer of the Recycling Market Development Board for the first
year, and after that year the] members of the Recycling Market
Development Board shall, in the order listed in this subsection,
rotate as the presiding officer for terms of one year. The
Recycling Market Development Board may designate chief executives
of additional agencies as members of the board if it identifies the
agencies as agencies needed to assist the board in performing its
duties as outlined in Subsection (b). The Recycling Market
Development Board shall provide support to and coordinate the
recycling activities of member agencies and shall pursue an
economic development strategy that focuses on the state's waste
management priorities established by Section 361.022 and that
includes development of recycling industries and markets as an
integrated component.
SECTION 3. Sections 361.423(d) and 361.424, Health and
Safety Code, are repealed.
SECTION 4. (a) If the commissioner of the General Land
Office is or is scheduled to become the presiding officer of the
Recycling Market Development Board on the effective date of this
Act, the chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
shall assume the office of presiding officer on that date and shall
serve in that capacity until the next regularly scheduled rotation
of service in that office under Section 361.423(a), Health and
Safety Code, as amended by this Act.
(b) This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.