By Chavez                                       H.B. No. 2992

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to implementing the La Paz Agreement for radioactive waste

 1-3     disposal in Texas.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 402, Subchapter D, Health and Safety

 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 402.0921.  Notwithstanding any other law or other

 1-8     provision of this chapter, the board shall select as the disposal

 1-9     site, a site[:]

1-10                 [(1)  within Hudspeth County, Texas, and]

1-11                 [(2)  circumscribed on the north by 31 degrees north

1-12     latitude, 15' and 00'; on the south by 31 degrees north latitude,

1-13     00' and 00'; on the east by 105 degrees longitude, 00' and 00'; and

1-14     on the west by 105 degrees longitude, 22' and 30'.]  more than 60

1-15     miles from the international border with Mexico.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.