Bill Text: TX HB4049 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to regulation and permitting of certain recycling facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB4049 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB4049-Introduced.html
| 86R8523 JAM-F | ||
| By: Dominguez | H.B. No. 4049 | |
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| relating to regulation and permitting of certain recycling | ||
| facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 361.119, Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (a-1) The commission may not exempt from permit or | ||
| registration requirements under this chapter a solid waste facility | ||
| that: | ||
| (1) receives more than 50 percent of its recyclable | ||
| material directly from any combination of: | ||
| (A) generators not affiliated with the facility; | ||
| (B) the public; or | ||
| (C) haulers not affiliated with the facility; | ||
| (2) receives no financial compensation to accept any | ||
| of the recyclable material it receives; and | ||
| (3) shows that the material is potentially recyclable | ||
| and has an economically feasible means of being recycled. | ||
| SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
| of this Act, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall | ||
| adopt rules necessary to implement Section 361.119(a-1), Health and | ||
| Safety Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
