1-1 By: Hunter of Taylor (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 370
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Harris of Dallas x
1-9 Rosson x
1-10 Carriker x
1-11 Henderson x
1-12 Leedom x
1-13 Lucio x
1-14 Luna x
1-15 Nelson x
1-16 Patterson x
1-17 Shelley x
1-18 Sibley x
1-19 West x
1-20 Whitmire x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to warning signs concerning the operation of certain
1-24 equipment near high voltage lines.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 752.006(b), Health and Safety Code, is
1-27 amended to read as follows:
1-28 (b) The warning sign required by Subsection (a)(1) must be a
1-29 weather-resistant sign of not less than five inches by seven inches
1-30 with either a yellow background and black lettering, or with
1-31 background coloring and lettering that conforms to the
1-32 recommendations or requirements of regulations adopted by the
1-33 Occupational Safety and Health Administration for warning signs,
1-34 that reads:
1-35 "WARNING--UNLAWFUL TO OPERATE THIS EQUIPMENT WITHIN TEN
1-36 FEET OF HIGH VOLTAGE LINES."
1-37 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-44 * * * * *
1-45 Austin,
1-46 Texas
1-47 May 10, 1993
1-48 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-49 President of the Senate
1-50 Sir:
1-51 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B.
1-52 No. 370, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-53 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-54 pass and be printed.
1-55 Harris of
1-56 Dallas, Chairman
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 WITNESSES
1-59 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 370.