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 | |
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| 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 [ |
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| 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. | ||
