| 1 | 1 | | 89R9246 DRS-F |
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| 2 | 2 | | By: Gerdes H.B. No. 4086 |
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| 7 | 7 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 8 | 8 | | AN ACT |
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| 9 | 9 | | relating to the regulation of composting facilities by certain |
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| 10 | 10 | | counties. |
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| 11 | 11 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 12 | 12 | | SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 364, Health and Safety |
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| 13 | 13 | | Code, is amended by adding Section 364.020 to read as follows: |
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| 14 | 14 | | Sec. 364.020. COUNTY REGULATION OF COMPOSTING FACILITY |
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| 15 | 15 | | LOCATION. (a) This section applies only to a county that does not |
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| 16 | 16 | | contain a municipality that requires a restaurant to divert food |
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| 17 | 17 | | waste from disposal in a landfill. |
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| 18 | 18 | | (b) In this section, "composting facility" means a facility |
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| 19 | 19 | | that composts only source-separated yard trimmings, clean wood |
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| 20 | 20 | | material, vegetative material, paper, manure, meat, fish, dead |
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| 21 | 21 | | animal carcasses, dairy materials, and meat and vegetable oils and |
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| 22 | 22 | | greases from a municipal, commercial, or institutional source. |
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| 23 | 23 | | (c) A county may prohibit the operation of a composting |
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| 24 | 24 | | facility within 3,281 feet of a stream, drain, recharge feature, |
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| 25 | 25 | | recharge area, or tributary that may constitute or recharge the |
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| 26 | 26 | | source of water supply of any municipality. |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |
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