By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 1681
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the lease and sale of certain land by the Texas
    1-3  Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 402.094, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (d)  The authority may lease or sell land owned by the
    1-9  authority that is not part of a licensed disposal site.  Land
   1-10  leased or sold by the authority under this section may not be used
   1-11  <only> for <agricultural, ranching, or grazing> purposes that may
   1-12  interfere with proper operation of the disposal site and may not be
   1-13  used for a facility that stores, processes, or disposes of waste,
   1-14  other than a facility owned and operated by a unit of local
   1-15  government.
   1-16        (e)  The authority shall include in a lease or deed executed
   1-17  under Subsection (d) a statement that the land may not be used for
   1-18  purposes that may interfere with proper operation of the disposal
   1-19  site.  The authority shall file a copy of the deed in the deed
   1-20  records of the county in which land sold under that subsection is
   1-21  located.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        (b)  The change in law made by Section 402.094(e), Health and
   1-24  Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a lease or deed
    2-1  executed or to the deed records of land sold on or after that date.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.