Bill Text: TX SB2393 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to limitations of the issuance of permits for municipal solid waste landfill facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2393 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB2393-Introduced.html

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86R14183 JAM-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2393

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to limitations of the issuance of permits for municipal
solid waste landfill facilities.
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 361.1232 to read as follows:
Sec. 361.1232. LIMITATION ON ISSUANCE OF PERMIT BASED ON
CAPACITY. The commission may not issue a permit for a new municipal
solid waste landfill facility or an areal expansion of an existing
municipal solid waste landfill facility unless:
(1) the commission determines that permitted
facilities conveniently located near the proposed new or expanded
facility do not have a projected capacity to dispose of the volume
of waste projected for the area for 30 years following the date of
application for the permit; or
(2) the governing body of the municipality or county
in which the landfill facility is located first approves by
resolution or order the issuance of the permit.
SECTION 2. Section 361.1232, Health and Safety Code, as
added by this Act, applies only to an application for the issuance
or amendment of a permit for a municipal solid waste landfill
facility that is pending before the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality on or after the effective date of this Act. A
permit for a municipal solid waste landfill facility that is issued
or amended before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law in effect when the permit was issued or amended, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.