By: Seliger S.B. No. 347
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding for the operations of the Texas Low-Level
Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 401.251, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection
(b-1) to read as follows:
(b) The commission shall deposit in the account the portion
of the fee collected under Section 401.245 that is calculated to
support the activities of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Compact Commission as required by Section 4.04(4), Texas
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact (Section 403.006 of
this code). The fee shall be assessed for party state compact waste
and nonparty compact waste.
(b-1) On the first day of each state fiscal year, the
comptroller shall transfer from the low-level radioactive waste
fund to the low-level radioactive waste disposal compact commission
account an amount equal to the amount appropriated for that state
fiscal year. On September 30 of each fiscal year, the comptroller
shall transfer the unexpended and unencumbered money from the
previous fiscal year in the low-level radioactive waste disposal
compact commission account to the low-level radioactive waste fund.
(c) Money in the low-level radioactive waste disposal
compact commission account may be used [appropriated] only to
support the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Compact Commission.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.