83R10214 JAM-D
By: Cortez H.B. No. 1590
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1590:
By: Marquez C.S.H.B. No. 1590
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to an exemption from certain municipal and county solid
waste disposal service requirements.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 364.034(h), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(h) This section does not apply to a private entity that
contracts to provide temporary solid waste disposal services to a
construction project unless the project is located in a
municipality that:
(1) has a population of less than 10,000;
(2) according to the most recent federal decennial
census, had population growth of more than 20 percent during the
decade preceding the most recent federal decennial census; and
(3) is located in a county that has a population of
more than 1.5 million in which more than 75 percent of the
population lives in a single municipality.
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, 2013.