By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Hancock) H.B. No. 3071

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 2025; May 9, 2025, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; May 22, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 22, 2025, sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3071 By: Hancock

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to cancellation of certain solid waste disposal permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 361, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Section 361.1201 to read as follows:

Sec. 361.1201. CANCELLATION OF CERTAIN LANDFILL PERMITS. (a) This section applies only to a facility that is located in:

(1) a county with a population of more than 2.1 million; and

(2) the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the county's principal municipality with a population of more than 900,000.

(b) The commission shall cancel a permit issued for a municipal solid waste landfill facility if the facility has not accepted waste for a period of 25 consecutive years.

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, 2025.

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