By Chisum                                       H.B. No. 3458

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to on-site disposal of low-level radioactive waste by a

 1-3     nonpublic generator.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 401.203, Health and Safety Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 401.203.  CERTAIN LICENSES [LICENSE] RESTRICTED TO

 1-8     PUBLIC ENTITY.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), a [A]

 1-9     radioactive waste disposal license may be issued only to a public

1-10     entity specifically authorized by law for radioactive waste

1-11     disposal.

1-12           (b)  The commission may grant a person other than a public

1-13     entity a license to dispose of low-level radioactive waste if the

1-14     waste was generated by that person at the same site where the waste

1-15     is to be disposed of.

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.