HB5057

HB5057 requires public notice and protects a limited transition period for existing private providers when a public agency grants another company exclusive rights to collect or transport solid waste. Covered public agencies include municipalities, counties and qualifying districts, authorities and interlocal combinations—not just cities.

The agency must publish a notice summarizing the contract’s or amendment’s purpose and describing the change in a newspaper of general circulation in its jurisdiction. It must also post the notice on its public website if it has one. If the agency requires providers to register or obtain operating approval, it must notify each registered or approved provider. The exclusive contract or amendment cannot take effect before newspaper publication. The requirements include renewals or amendments that add exclusive rights to services not previously covered.

A different provider already serving a customer under a nonexclusive contract may continue those services until that contract expires or one year after the newspaper notice, whichever comes first. A provider already serving a customer without a contract gets until the 60th day after newspaper publication. These are transition protections, not a permanent right to disregard the exclusive arrangement.

The law excludes municipal service to annexed areas covered by Local Government Code Section 43.0661, which has separate protections. It took effect June 20, 2025, and applies only to solid-waste contracts or franchise agreements entered into on or after that date. Enacted text · Official history.