By: Seliger S.B. No. 347

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to funding for the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 401.249, Health and Safety Code, is amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

(f) The commission shall deposit in the account the portion of the fee collected under Section 401.245 that is calculated to support the activities of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission as required by Section 4.04(4), Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact (Section 403.006 of this code). The fee shall be assessed for party state compact waste and nonparty compact waste.

SECTION 2. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 401.251, Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:

(b) On the first day of each state fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer from the low-level radioactive waste fund to the low-level radioactive waste disposal compact commission account an amount equal to the amount appropriated for that state fiscal year. On September 30 of each fiscal year, the comptroller shall transfer the unexpended and unencumbered money from the previous fiscal year in the low-level radioactive waste disposal compact commission account to the low-level radioactive waste fund [The commission shall deposit in the account the portion of the fee collected under Section 401.245 that is calculated to support the activities of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission as required by Section 4.04(4), Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact (Section 403.006 of this code)].

(c) Money in the low-level radioactive waste disposal compact commission account may be used [appropriated] only to support the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.