Bill Text: TX HB373 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate recycling businesses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB373 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB373-Introduced.html
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| By: González of El Paso | H.B. No. 373 | |
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| relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate recycling | ||
| businesses. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 234, Local Government | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 234.0025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 234.0025. REGULATION OF RECYCLING BUSINESSES. (a) | ||
| This section applies only to a county: | ||
| (1) in which a municipality with a population of | ||
| 500,000 or more is located; and | ||
| (2) that is located on an international border. | ||
| (b) The commissioners court of a county to which this | ||
| section applies by order may regulate the operation of a recycling | ||
| business located in the unincorporated area of the county. | ||
| (c) A commissioners court may not include in an order | ||
| adopted under this section a requirement that conflicts with a | ||
| similar requirement prescribed by another law governing a recycling | ||
| business, including a requirement prescribed by Chapter 396, | ||
| Transportation Code. | ||
| 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, 2025. | ||
