Bill Text: TX HB3946 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the functions of the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Environmental Regulation [HB3946 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3946-Introduced.html
| By: Landgraf | H.B. No. 3946 | |
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| relating to the functions of the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste | ||
| Compact Commission. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 403.0051 Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 403.0051. COMMISSION AS INDEPENDENT ENTITY. | ||
| (a) The commission is an independent entity as established | ||
| under federal law and is governed by the party states compact | ||
| agreement, and not an agency of the State of Texas. It is not a | ||
| program, department, or other division of, or administratively | ||
| attached to, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality | ||
| or any | ||
| other agency of the State of Texas, although the Commission may; | ||
| (A1) be assigned an agency code as required; | ||
| (A2) obtain its funding through an appropriation | ||
| from the State of Texas; | ||
| (A3) allow for the reimbursement of commission | ||
| members, staff, and contractors from the state comptroller in the | ||
| amount of state sales tax paid for purchases approved by the | ||
| commission as expressly granted under Section 151.309, Texas Tax | ||
| Code; and | ||
| (A4) conduct other functions not addressed in the | ||
| governing federal law or in the party states compact agreement in | ||
| alignment with policies and procedures as determined by the State | ||
| of Texas. | ||
