By:  Shapleigh                                        S.B. No. 1823

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to implementing the La Paz Agreement for radioactive waste

 1-2     disposal in Texas.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Amend Sec. 402.0921, Health and Safety Code, to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 402.0921.  Site Area.  Notwithstanding any other law or

 1-7     provision of this chapter, the board shall select as the disposal

 1-8     site, a site:

 1-9                 [(1)  within Hudspeth County, Texas, and]

1-10                 [(2)  circumscribed on the north by 31 degrees north

1-11     latitude, 15' and 00"; on the south by 31 degrees north latitude,

1-12     00' and 00"; on the east by 105 degrees longitude, 00' and 00"; and

1-13     on the west by 105 degrees longitude, 22' and 30".]  more than 60

1-14     miles from the international border with Mexico.

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.