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.