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  89R9246 DRS-F     By: Gerdes H.B. No. 4086       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the regulation of composting facilities by certain   counties.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 364, Health and Safety   Code, is amended by adding Section 364.020 to read as follows:           Sec.   364.020.     COUNTY REGULATION OF COMPOSTING FACILITY   LOCATION. (a) This section applies only to a county that does not   contain a municipality that requires a restaurant to divert food   waste from disposal in a landfill.           (b)     In this section, "composting facility" means a facility   that composts only source-separated yard trimmings, clean wood   material, vegetative material, paper, manure, meat, fish, dead   animal carcasses, dairy materials, and meat and vegetable oils and   greases from a municipal, commercial, or institutional source.           (c)     A county may prohibit the operation of a composting   facility within 3,281 feet of a stream, drain, recharge feature,   recharge area, or tributary that may constitute or recharge the   source of water supply of any municipality.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.