By Madla                                              S.B. No. 1262
         76R1118 SMH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the amount and use of fees collected by the Texas
 1-3     Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 402.273(a), Health and Safety Code, is
 1-6     amended to read as follows:
 1-7           (a)  Waste disposal fees adopted by the board must be
 1-8     sufficient to:
 1-9                 (1)  allow the authority to recover operating and
1-10     maintenance costs;
1-11                 (2)  provide an amount necessary to meet future costs
1-12     of decommissioning, closing, and postclosure maintenance and
1-13     surveillance of the disposal site;
1-14                 (3)  provide an amount to fund local public projects
1-15     under Subchapter I;
1-16                 (4)  provide an amount sufficient to fund, in whole or
1-17     in part, a rangeland and wildlife management plan;
1-18                 (5)  provide an amount necessary to pay licensing fees
1-19     and to provide security required by the commission under law and
1-20     commission rules; [and]
1-21                 (6)  provide an amount necessary to fund debt service
1-22     and necessary fees and charges, including insurance premiums and
1-23     similar costs, associated with the issuance and payment of bonds
1-24     under Subchapter K; and
 2-1                 (7)  provide an amount the Texas Department of
 2-2     Transportation determines to be sufficient to pay the installment,
 2-3     operation, and maintenance costs of the emergency highway call box
 2-4     system under Chapter 226, Transportation Code.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  Section 402.275(d), Health and Safety Code, is
 2-6     amended to read as follows:
 2-7           (d)  Except as provided by Subsection (f), money in the
 2-8     low-level waste fund may be used to pay:
 2-9                 (1)  operating and maintenance costs of the authority;
2-10                 (2)  future costs of decommissioning, closing, and
2-11     postclosure maintenance and surveillance of the disposal site;
2-12                 (3)  licensing fees and to provide security required by
2-13     the commission;
2-14                 (4)  money judgments rendered against the authority
2-15     that are directed by a court of this state to be paid from this
2-16     fund;
2-17                 (5)  expenses associated with implementation of the
2-18     rangeland and wildlife management plan;
2-19                 (6)  funds for local public projects under Subchapter
2-20     I;
2-21                 (7)  debt service and necessary fees and charges,
2-22     including insurance premiums and similar costs, associated with the
2-23     issuance and payment of bonds under Subchapter K; [and]
2-24                 (8)  expenses for any other purpose under this chapter;
2-25     and
2-26                 (9)  the installment, operation, and maintenance costs
2-27     of the emergency highway call box system under Chapter 226,
 3-1     Transportation Code.
 3-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 3-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 3-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 3-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 3-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 3-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.