Bill Text: TX HB3071 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to cancellation of certain solid waste disposal permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - Filed [HB3071 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB3071-Introduced.html
| 89R13632 DRS-D | ||
| By: Geren | H.B. No. 3071 | |
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| 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. | ||
| The commission shall cancel a permit issued for a municipal solid | ||
| waste landfill facility if: | ||
| (1) the facility has not accepted waste for a period of | ||
| 25 consecutive years; or | ||
| (2) if the permit was issued to the owner of the | ||
| facility, the person to whom the permit was issued no longer owns | ||
| the facility. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 361.1201(2), Health and Safety Code, as | ||
| added by this Act, applies only to the transfer of ownership of a | ||
| municipal solid waste facility that occurs on or after the | ||
| effective date of this Act. A transfer of ownership that occurred | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it | ||
| existed immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that | ||
| law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
