79R6450 SGA-D
By: Kolkhorst H.B. No. 1821
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the authority of a county to require waste haulers to be
licensed as a waste hauler.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 368.013(b), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a county may not
require a waste hauler license to be held by a waste hauler[:
[(1)] while transporting waste on behalf of a
municipality or other governmental entity[; or
[(2) operating regularly in more than three counties].
SECTION 2. A county that requires licensing of waste
haulers no longer exempt from licensing requirements under Section
368.013(b), Health and Safety Code, as amended by this Act, may not
require that a waste hauler possess a county waste hauler license
before January 1, 2006.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.