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79R240 JRJ-D

By:  Brown of Brazos                                              H.B. No. 591



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the privatization of waste removal service operations 
at certain public institutions of higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.949 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.949.  PRIVATIZATION OF WASTE REMOVAL SERVICES.  (a)  
In this section, "general academic teaching institution" has the 
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
	(b)  A general academic teaching institution may not employ 
persons whose primary duties include providing waste removal 
services or own, lease, or maintain equipment that is used 
primarily for waste removal services.  A general academic teaching 
institution must contract with a local government or private 
business entity to provide waste removal services for the 
institution.
	(c)  This section does not apply to a general academic 
teaching institution located in a region in which the governing 
board finds that no local government or private business entity 
provides adequate waste removal services or is willing to contract 
with the institution to provide those services.  The exception 
provided by this subsection is effective for 10 years after the 
governing board makes the required finding.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2006.