By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 1681
       74R4514 MI-F
                                 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.
   1-13        (e)  The authority shall include in a lease or deed executed
   1-14  under Subsection (d) a statement that the land may not be used for
   1-15  purposes that may interfere with proper operation of the disposal
   1-16  site.  The authority shall file a copy of the deed in the deed
   1-17  records of the county in which land sold under that subsection is
   1-18  located.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        (b)  The change in law made by Section 402.094(e), Health and
   1-21  Safety Code, as added by this Act, applies only to a lease or deed
   1-22  executed or to the deed records of land sold on or after that date.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
    2-4                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-5        Amend H.B. No. 1681 on page 1, line 12, between "site" and
    2-6  the period, by inserting "and may not be used for a facility that
    2-7  stores, processes, or disposes of waste, other than a facility
    2-8  owned and operated by a unit of local government".
    2-9  74R10425 MI-D                                               Kuempel