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HB 4112

Signed into Law

Relating to the disposal or storage of high-level radioactive waste.

Introduced 2025-03-07Last action 2025-06-20 — Effective on 9/1/25Committee Natural Resources

Sponsor

BirdwellRepublican

Cosponsors

None
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Votes

House2025-05-29PassedSee how each member voted →
House concurs in Senate amendment(s) RV#4053
Yea 129 · 55 D · 74 RNay 2 · 2 RNV 1 · Absent 18
Senate2025-05-26PassedSee how each member voted →
Read 3rd time
Yea 28 · 8 D · 20 RNay 3 · 3 D
Senate2025-05-26PassedSee how each member voted →
Three day rule suspended
Yea 31Nay 0
House2025-05-10PassedSee how each member voted →
Read 3rd time RV#2037
Yea 131 · 48 D · 83 RNay 1 · 1 RNV 2 · Absent 16
House2025-05-09PassedSee how each member voted →
Amended RV#1954
Yea 131 · 52 D · 79 RNay 1 · 1 RNV 1 · Absent 17

Summary

This bill prohibits the disposal or storage of high-level radioactive waste in Texas, with a narrow exception for university-operated nuclear facilities. The legislation amends the Texas Health and Safety Code to create an exemption allowing universities that currently or formerly operated nuclear power reactors or nuclear research and test reactors to store high-level radioactive waste, but only at the specific reactor site where the waste originated. The bill explicitly prevents the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality from issuing permits for high-level radioactive waste facilities under various water pollution control programs, except for these university reactor sites, and establishes that no person, including compact waste disposal facility license holders, may dispose of or store such waste in Texas outside of the permitted university exception. The legislation takes effect September 1, 2025.

Bill history

  1. 2025-03-07 · House
    Filed
  2. 2025-03-27 · House
    Read first time
  3. 2025-03-27 · House
    Referred to Environmental Regulation
  4. 2025-04-03 · House
    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  5. 2025-04-03 · House
    Considered in public hearing
  6. 2025-04-03 · House
    Committee substitute considered in committee
  7. 2025-04-03 · House
    Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee
  8. 2025-04-03 · House
    Left pending in committee
  9. 2025-04-17 · House
    Considered in public hearing
  10. 2025-04-17 · House
    Committee substitute considered in committee
  11. 2025-04-17 · House
    Reported favorably as substituted
  12. 2025-04-25 · House
    Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
  13. 2025-04-28 · House
    Committee report distributed
  14. 2025-04-28 · House
    Committee report sent to Calendars
  15. 2025-05-06 · House
    Considered in Calendars
  16. 2025-05-08 · House
    Placed on General State Calendar
  17. 2025-05-09 · House
    Read 2nd time
  18. 2025-05-09 · House
    Amended 1-Landgraf
  19. 2025-05-09 · House
    Passed to engrossment as amended
  20. 2025-05-09 · House
    Record vote RV#1954
  21. 2025-05-09 · House
    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  22. 2025-05-10 · House
    Read 3rd time
  23. 2025-05-10 · House
    Passed
  24. 2025-05-10 · House
    Record vote RV#2037
  25. 2025-05-10 · House
    Reported engrossed
  26. 2025-05-12 · Senate
    Received from the House
  27. 2025-05-19 · Senate
    Read first time
  28. 2025-05-19 · Senate
    Referred to Natural Resources
  29. 2025-05-21 · Senate
    Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
  30. 2025-05-21 · Senate
    Considered in public hearing
  31. 2025-05-21 · Senate
    Testimony taken in committee
  32. 2025-05-21 · Senate
    Left pending in committee
  33. 2025-05-21 · Senate
    Vote taken in committee
  34. 2025-05-22 · Senate
    Reported favorably as substituted
  35. 2025-05-22 · Senate
    Recommended for local & uncontested calendar
  36. 2025-05-22 · Senate
    Committee report printed and distributed
  37. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Placed on intent calendar
  38. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Rules suspended-Regular order of business
  39. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Read 2nd time
  40. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Amendment(s) offered FA1 Birdwell
  41. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Amended
  42. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Vote recorded in Journal
  43. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Passed to 3rd reading as amended
  44. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Three day rule suspended
  45. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Record vote
  46. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Read 3rd time
  47. 2025-05-26 · Senate
    Passed
  48. 2025-05-26 · House
    Senate passage as amended reported
  49. 2025-05-26 · House
    Senate Amendments distributed
  50. 2025-05-27 · House
    Senate Amendments Analysis distributed
  51. 2025-05-29 · House
    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)
  52. 2025-05-29 · House
    Record vote RV#4053
  53. 2025-05-29 · House
    Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
  54. 2025-05-29 · House
    Text of Senate Amendment(s)
  55. 2025-05-29 · Senate
    House concurs in Senate amendment(s)-reported
  56. 2025-05-30 · House
    Reported enrolled
  57. 2025-05-31 · House
    Signed in the House
  58. 2025-06-01 · Senate
    Signed in the Senate
  59. 2025-06-01
    Sent to the Governor
  60. 2025-06-20
    Signed by the Governor
  61. 2025-06-20
    Effective on 9/1/25

Note

Historical import. Session: 89R

Full Bill Text
http://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/HB04112E.PDF
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