By:  Montford, Rosson                                 S.B. No. 1500
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the disposal of low-level radioactive waste.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subchapter H, Chapter 402, Health and Safety
    1-4  Code, is amended by adding Section 402.2255 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 402.2255.  INCINERATION OF LOW-LEVEL WASTE.  (a)  A
    1-6  person may not dispose of low-level waste by incineration in a
    1-7  county with a population of less than 3,000.
    1-8        (b)  The authority shall adopt rules to enforce this section.
    1-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-15  passage, and it is so enacted.