Bill Text: TX HB238 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury for any period exceeding one year; authorizing a fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-27 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB238 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB238-Introduced.html
 
 
  By: Landgraf H.B. No. 238
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury
  for any period exceeding one year; authorizing a fee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 401.244, Health and Safety Code, is
  amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
         (a-1)  A holder of a license or permit issued by the
  commission under this chapter or Chapter 361 that authorizes the
  storage, other than disposal, of a radioactive waste or elemental
  mercury from other persons shall remit each quarter to the
  commissioners court of the host county five percent of the license
  or permit holder's gross receipts received from the storage of a
  radioactive waste or elemental mercury for any period exceeding one
  year. This subsection applies only to the storage of the substance
  for any period exceeding one year. This subsection applies only to
  the storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury at or
  adjacent to the compact waste disposal facility.
         SECTION 2.  Sec. 401.271(a), Health and Safety Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A holder of a license issued by the commission under
  this chapter that authorizes the disposal of a radioactive
  substance from other persons shall remit each quarter an amount
  equal to 10 percent of the license holder's gross receipts received
  from disposal operations under a license issued under this chapter
  that occur after the effective date of the Act enacting this section
  as follows:
               (1)  five percent shall be remitted to the comptroller
  for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund; and
               (2)  five percent shall be remitted to the host county
  in accordance with Section [Sections] 401.244[(b) and (d)].
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect on the 91st day after the last day of the
  legislative session.
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