80R4814 JJT-D
 
  By: Wentworth S.B. No. 594
 
 
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to municipal authority to enforce a solid waste collection
and transportation services franchise.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 364.034(e), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
       (e)  This section does not apply to a person who provides the
public or private entity, public agency, or county with written
documentation that the person is receiving solid waste disposal
services from another entity. Nothing in Subsections (a)-(d)
limits [this section shall limit] the authority of a municipality
to enforce its grant of a franchise for solid waste collection and
transportation services within its territory.
       SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.