AN ACT

 1-1     relating to requiring the Texas Natural Resource Conservation

 1-2     Commission to study a tracking system for hazardous waste required

 1-3     to be returned to the United States under the La Paz Agreement.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation

 1-6     Commission shall:

 1-7                 (1)  conduct a study of the cost and effectiveness of

 1-8     an electronic tracking system to track the quantity of hazardous

 1-9     waste required to be returned to the United States under the terms

1-10     of the La Paz Agreement; and

1-11                 (2)  not later than January 15, 1999, submit to the

1-12     governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house, and

1-13     both houses of the legislature a report containing the results of

1-14     the study.

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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 843 passed the Senate on

         March 26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 843 passed the House on

         May 13, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor