Bill Text: TX HB4271 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on requests for authorization to operate a composting facility.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2025-05-21 - Left pending in committee [HB4271 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-HB4271-Engrossed.html

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89R26652 DRS-D
By: Gerdes H.B. No. 4271

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to public meetings held by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality on requests for authorization to operate a
composting facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 361.428, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) The executive director shall hold a public meeting in
the county in which a composting facility is proposed to be located
and for which a permit, registration, or notification is required
by commission rule on the request of a member of the legislature
whose district includes the site at which the facility is proposed
to be located.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.