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


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
  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.
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