1-1           By:  Truan, Carona                               S.B. No. 843

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 1997; March 4, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on International Relations,

 1-4     Trade, and Technology; March 13, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to requiring the Texas Natural Resource Conservation

 1-9     Commission to study a tracking system for hazardous waste required

1-10     to be returned to the United States under the La Paz Agreement.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  The Texas Natural Resource Conservation

1-13     Commission shall:

1-14                 (1)  conduct a study of the cost and effectiveness of

1-15     an electronic tracking system to track the quantity of hazardous

1-16     waste required to be returned to the United States under the terms

1-17     of the La Paz Agreement; and

1-18                 (2)  not later than January 15, 1999, submit to the

1-19     governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house, and

1-20     both houses of the legislature a report containing the results of

1-21     the study.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.

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