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.