89R5764 JRR-F
By: Sparks S.B. No. 713
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the surcharge for the disposal, and the remittance for
the storage, of certain waste at the Texas Low-Level Radioactive
Waste Disposal Compact waste disposal facility; decreasing the
amount of the surcharge and changing how the surcharge and
remittance are distributed.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 401.207(g) and (h), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(g) The commission shall assess a surcharge for the disposal
of nonparty compact waste at the compact waste disposal facility.
The surcharge is 15 [20] percent of the total contracted rate under
Section 401.2456 and must be assessed in addition to the total
contracted rate under that section.
(h) Two-thirds of a [A] surcharge collected under
Subsection (g) shall be deposited to the credit of the
environmental radiation and perpetual care account and the
remainder of the surcharge collected shall be remitted to the host
county in accordance with Sections 401.244(b) and (d).
SECTION 2. Section 401.271, Health and Safety Code, is
amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to
read as follows:
(c) 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 commission for
deposit into the general revenue fund] an amount equal to 20 percent
of the license or permit holder's gross receipts received from the
storage of the substance for any period exceeding one year as
follows:
(1) 50 percent of the amount shall be remitted to the
comptroller for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund;
and
(2) the remainder of the amount shall be remitted to
the host county in accordance with Sections 401.244(b) and (d).
(d) Subsection (c) [This subsection] applies only to the
storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury:
(1) [the substance] for any period exceeding one year;
and
(2) [. This subsection applies only to the storage of
radioactive waste or elemental mercury] at or adjacent to the
compact waste disposal facility.
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a surcharge collected or remittance made on or after the
effective date of this Act. A surcharge collected or remittance
made before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
effect immediately before that date, and the former law is
continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.