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By: Seliger |
S.B. No. 347 |
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(In the Senate - Filed February 4, 2013; February 5, 2013, |
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read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; |
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March 11, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee |
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Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 11, 2013, |
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sent to printer.) |
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 347 |
By: Hegar |
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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. Section 401.249, Health and Safety Code, is |
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amended by adding Subsection (f) to read as follows: |
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(f) 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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SECTION 2. Subsections (b) and (c), Section 401.251, Health |
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and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows: |
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(b) 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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[The commission shall deposit in the account the portion of the fee
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collected under Section 401.245 that is calculated to support the
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activities of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal
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Compact Commission as required by Section 4.04(4), Texas Low-Level
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Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact (Section 403.006 of this code)]. |
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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 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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