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.