By Montford, Rosson                                   S.B. No. 1500
       74R7055 JJT-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the transportation and disposal of low-level
    1-3  radioactive waste.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 401.0521 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 401.0521.  CERTAIN LOW-LEVEL WASTE TRANSPORTATION ROUTES
    1-8  PROHIBITED.  (a)  A person may not transport low-level waste
    1-9  through a municipality with a population of more than 50,000 except
   1-10  as provided by Subsection (b).
   1-11        (b)  A person may transport low-level waste through the
   1-12  municipality in which the waste was generated.
   1-13        (c)  In this section, "low-level waste" has the meaning
   1-14  assigned by Section 402.003.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Subchapter H, Chapter 402, Health and Safety
   1-16  Code, is amended by adding Section 402.2255 to read as follows:
   1-17        Sec. 402.2255.  INCINERATION OF LOW-LEVEL WASTE.  (a)  A
   1-18  person may not dispose of low-level waste by incineration in a
   1-19  county with a population of less than 3,000.
   1-20        (b)  The authority shall adopt rules to enforce this section.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-3  passage, and it is so enacted.