Bill Text: TX HB281 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a limitation on the expansion of certain landfills.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2015-06-18 - Effective immediately [HB281 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB281-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 281 | ||
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| relating to a limitation on the expansion of certain landfills. | ||
| 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 361.1231 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 361.1231. LIMITATION ON EXPANSION OF CERTAIN | ||
| LANDFILLS. (a) This section applies only to a municipally owned | ||
| Type I municipal solid waste landfill permitted by the state before | ||
| 1980 that: | ||
| (1) is located wholly inside the boundaries of a | ||
| municipality; and | ||
| (2) is owned by a municipality other than the | ||
| municipality in which it is located. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, | ||
| the commission may not approve an application for the issuance, | ||
| amendment, or renewal of a permit that seeks to expand the area or | ||
| capacity of a landfill unless the governing body of the | ||
| municipality in which the landfill is located first approves by | ||
| resolution or order the issuance, amendment, or renewal of the | ||
| permit. | ||
| (c) The commission shall provide the members of the | ||
| legislature who represent the district containing the landfill | ||
| described in the permit with an opportunity to comment on the | ||
| application and shall consider those comments in evaluating an | ||
| application under this subchapter. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| an application for the issuance, amendment, or renewal of a permit | ||
| pending before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or | ||
| after the effective date of this Act. A permit issued, amended, or | ||
| renewed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law | ||
| in effect when the permit was issued, amended, or renewed, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2015. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 281 was passed by the House on May 11, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 109, Nays 25, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 281 on May 28, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 8, 2 | ||
| present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 281 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
| 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
