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By: Kolkhorst |
S.B. No. 2078 |
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(In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2025; March 24, 2025, read |
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first time and referred to Committee on Water, Agriculture and |
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Rural Affairs; April 9, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable |
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Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; |
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April 9, 2025, sent to printer.) |
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2078 |
By: Kolkhorst |
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to the regulation of composting in certain counties; |
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authorizing a civil penalty. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 364, Health and Safety |
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Code, is amended by adding Section 364.020 to read as follows: |
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Sec. 364.020. DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN FOOD WASTE FOR COMPOSTING |
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IN CERTAIN COUNTIES PROHIBITED. (a) In this section: |
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(1) "Commercial food waste composting ordinance" |
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means a municipal ordinance that requires a multifamily residential |
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property, a business holding a food permit, or another business |
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owner to divert food waste from disposal in a landfill. |
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(2) "Composting facility" means a facility that |
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composts source-separated yard trimmings, clean wood material, |
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vegetative material, paper, manure, meat, fish, dead animal |
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carcasses, dairy materials, or meat and vegetable oils and greases |
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from a municipal, commercial, or institutional source. |
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(b) A person may not deposit at a composting facility |
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located in a county that does not contain a municipality with a |
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commercial food waste composting ordinance food waste that is: |
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(1) collected for composting in a county that contains |
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a municipality that has a commercial food waste composting |
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ordinance; and |
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(2) subject to such an ordinance. |
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(c) A person is liable for a civil penalty of $1,000 for each |
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violation of Subsection (b). |
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(d) The attorney general may bring an action in a court of |
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competent jurisdiction to recover the civil penalty imposed under |
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this section. |
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(e) This section does not apply to an agricultural operation |
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as defined by Section 251.002, Agriculture Code. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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