By: Landgraf H.B. No. 238
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury
for any period exceeding one year; authorizing a fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 401.244, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
(a-1) A holder of a license or permit issued by the
commission under this chapter or Chapter 361 that authorizes the
storage, other than disposal, of a radioactive waste or elemental
mercury from other persons shall remit each quarter to the
commissioners court of the host county five percent of the license
or permit holder's gross receipts received from the storage of a
radioactive waste or elemental mercury for any period exceeding one
year. This subsection applies only to the storage of the substance
for any period exceeding one year. This subsection applies only to
the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury at or
adjacent to the compact waste disposal facility.
SECTION 2. Sec. 401.271(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A holder of a license issued by the commission under
this chapter that authorizes the disposal of a radioactive
substance from other persons shall remit each quarter an amount
equal to 10 percent of the license holder's gross receipts received
from disposal operations under a license issued under this chapter
that occur after the effective date of the Act enacting this section
as follows:
(1) five percent shall be remitted to the comptroller
for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund; and
(2) five percent shall be remitted to the host county
in accordance with Section [Sections] 401.244[(b) and (d)].
SECTION 3. 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the
legislative session.