By Truan                                         S.B. No. 843

      75R2933 MI-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to requiring the Texas Natural Resource Conservation

 1-3     Commission to study a tracking system for hazardous waste required

 1-4     to be returned to the United States under the La Paz Agreement.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation

 1-7     Commission shall:

 1-8                 (1)  conduct a study of the cost and effectiveness of

 1-9     an electronic tracking system to track the quantity of hazardous

1-10     waste required to be returned to the United States under the terms

1-11     of the La Paz Agreement; and

1-12                 (2)  not later than January 15, 1999, submit to the

1-13     governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house, and

1-14     both houses of the legislature a report containing the results of

1-15     the study.

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.