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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to funding for the operations of the Texas Low-Level |
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Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 401.251, Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection |
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(b-1) to read as follows: |
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(b) The commission shall deposit in the account the portion |
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of the fee collected under Section 401.245 that is calculated to |
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support the activities of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste |
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Disposal Compact Commission as required by Section 4.04(4), Texas |
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Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact (Section 403.006 of |
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this code). The fee shall be assessed for party state compact waste |
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and nonparty compact waste. |
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(b-1) On the first day of each state fiscal year, the |
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comptroller shall transfer from the low-level radioactive waste |
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fund to the low-level radioactive waste disposal compact commission |
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account an amount equal to the amount appropriated for that state |
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fiscal year. On September 30 of each fiscal year, the comptroller |
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shall transfer the unexpended and unencumbered money from the |
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previous fiscal year in the low-level radioactive waste disposal |
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compact commission account to the low-level radioactive waste fund. |
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(c) Money in the low-level radioactive waste disposal |
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compact commission account may be used [appropriated] only to |
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support the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste |
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Disposal Compact Commission. |
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SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |