Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Gallego H.B. No. 3163 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 5, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended by amending Chapter 403, Section 403.006 to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 403.005. Powers and Duties. (a) The Texas Low-Level 1-8 Radioactive Waste Commission and the members of the commission have 1-9 the powers and duties prescribed by the compact. The members of 1-10 the commission are responsible for administering the provisions of 1-11 the compact. 1-12 (b) The exercise of the commission's power pursuant to 1-13 Section 3.05 (6) must be ratified by the Legislature prior to 1-14 taking effect. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.