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By:  Kolkhorst (Senate Sponsor - Ogden)                           H.B. No. 1821
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2005; 
May 13, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural 
Resources; May 21, 2005, reported favorably by the following vote:  
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 21, 2005, sent to printer.)


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.                           



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