By Chavez H.B. No. 60
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Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to implementing the La Paz Agreement for radioactive waste
1-3 disposal in Texas.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 402, Subchapter D, Health and Safety
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 402.0921. Notwithstanding any other law or other
1-8 provision of this chapter, the board shall select as the disposal
1-9 site, a site [:]
1-10 [(1) within Hudspeth County, Texas, and]
1-11 [(2) circumscribed on the north by 31 degrees north
1-12 latitude, 15'and 00'; on the south by 31 degrees north latitude,
1-13 00' and 00'; on the east by 105 degrees longtitude, 00' and 00';
1-14 and on the west by 105 degrees longtitude, 22' and 30'.] more than
1-15 60 miles from the international border with Mexico.
1-16 SECTION 2. The important of this legislation and the crowded
1-17 conditions of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
1-18 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
1-19 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
1-20 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
1-21 take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
2-1 so enacted.