| 1 | 1 | | By: Landgraf H.B. No. 238 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury |
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| 7 | 7 | | for any period exceeding one year; authorizing a fee. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 401.244, Health and Safety Code, is |
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| 10 | 10 | | amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (a-1) A holder of a license or permit issued by the |
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| 12 | 12 | | commission under this chapter or Chapter 361 that authorizes the |
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| 13 | 13 | | storage, other than disposal, of a radioactive waste or elemental |
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| 14 | 14 | | mercury from other persons shall remit each quarter to the |
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| 15 | 15 | | commissioners court of the host county five percent of the license |
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| 16 | 16 | | or permit holder's gross receipts received from the storage of a |
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| 17 | 17 | | radioactive waste or elemental mercury for any period exceeding one |
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| 18 | 18 | | year. This subsection applies only to the storage of the substance |
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| 19 | 19 | | for any period exceeding one year. This subsection applies only to |
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| 20 | 20 | | the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury at or |
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| 21 | 21 | | adjacent to the compact waste disposal facility. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 2. Sec. 401.271(a), Health and Safety Code, is |
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| 23 | 23 | | amended to read as follows: |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) A holder of a license issued by the commission under |
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| 25 | 25 | | this chapter that authorizes the disposal of a radioactive |
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| 26 | 26 | | substance from other persons shall remit each quarter an amount |
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| 27 | 27 | | equal to 10 percent of the license holder's gross receipts received |
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| 28 | 28 | | from disposal operations under a license issued under this chapter |
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| 29 | 29 | | that occur after the effective date of the Act enacting this section |
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| 30 | 30 | | as follows: |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) five percent shall be remitted to the comptroller |
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| 32 | 32 | | for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund; and |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) five percent shall be remitted to the host county |
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| 34 | 34 | | in accordance with Section [Sections] 401.244[(b) and (d)]. |
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| 35 | 35 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 36 | 36 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 37 | 37 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 39 | 39 | | Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the |
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| 40 | 40 | | legislative session. |
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