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Relating to cancellation of certain solid waste disposal permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the official text

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H.B. No. 3071

AN ACT

relating to cancellation of certain solid waste disposal permits

issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

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 361.1201 to read as follows:

Sec. 361.1201. CANCELLATION OF CERTAIN LANDFILL PERMITS.

(a) This section applies only to a facility that is located in:

(1) a county with a population of more than 2.1

million; and

(2) the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the county's

principal municipality with a population of more than 900,000.

(b) The commission shall cancel a permit issued for a

municipal solid waste landfill facility if the facility has not

accepted waste for a period of 25 consecutive years.

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.

______________________________
______________________________

President of the Senate
Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3071 was passed by the House on May 8,

2025, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 9, 1 present, not

voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to

H.B. No. 3071 on May 28, 2025, and requested the appointment of a

conference committee to consider the differences between the two

houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report

on H.B. No. 3071 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 101,

Nays 30, 2 present, not voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 3071 was passed by the Senate, with

amendments, on May 25, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays

1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference

committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and

that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.

3071 on May 31, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

______________________________

Secretary of the Senate

APPROVED: __________________

Date

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Governor
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