bill cuts the radioactive waste surcharge from 20% to 15%

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89R5764 JRR-F

By: Sparks
S.B. No. 713

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the surcharge for the disposal, and the remittance for

the storage, of certain waste at the Texas Low-Level Radioactive

Waste Disposal Compact waste disposal facility; decreasing the

amount of the surcharge and changing how the surcharge and

remittance are distributed.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Sections 401.207(g) and (h), Health and Safety

Code, are amended to read as follows:

(g) The commission shall assess a surcharge for the disposal

of nonparty compact waste at the compact waste disposal facility.

The surcharge is 15 [ 20 ] percent of the total contracted rate under

Section 401.2456 and must be assessed in addition to the total

contracted rate under that section.

(h) Two-thirds of a [ A ] surcharge collected under

Subsection (g) shall be deposited to the credit of the

environmental radiation and perpetual care account and the

remainder of the surcharge collected shall be remitted to the host

county in accordance with Sections 401.244(b) and (d) .

SECTION 2. Section 401.271, Health and Safety Code, is

amended by amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to

read as follows:

(c) 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 commission for

deposit into the general revenue fund ] an amount equal to 20 percent

of the license or permit holder's gross receipts received from the

storage of the substance for any period exceeding one year as

follows:

(1) 50 percent of the amount shall be remitted to the

comptroller for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund;

and

(2) the remainder of the amount shall be remitted to

the host county in accordance with Sections 401.244(b) and (d) .

(d) Subsection (c) [ This subsection ] applies only to the

storage of radioactive waste or elemental mercury:

(1) [ the substance ] for any period exceeding one year ;

and

(2) [ . This subsection applies only to the storage of

radioactive waste or elemental mercury ] at or adjacent to the

compact waste disposal facility.

SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only

to a surcharge collected or remittance made on or after the

effective date of this Act. A surcharge collected or remittance

made before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in

effect immediately before that date, and the former law is

continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.