H.B. No. 781
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the inspection of certain electronic products under the
1-3 Texas Radiation Control Act.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 401.064, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Subsections (d)-(f) to read as follows:
1-7 (d) The board by rule shall require a person who inspects
1-8 medical, podiatric medical, dental, veterinary, or chiropractic
1-9 electronic products to have special training in the design and uses
1-10 of the products.
1-11 (e) The department shall conduct inspections of medical,
1-12 podiatric medical, dental, veterinary, and chiropractic electronic
1-13 products in a manner designed to cause as little disruption of a
1-14 medical, podiatric medical, dental, veterinary, or chiropractic
1-15 practice as is practicable.
1-16 (f) In adopting rules under this section relating to the
1-17 inspection of medical, podiatric medical, dental, veterinary, and
1-18 chiropractic electronic products, the board shall solicit and
1-19 follow the recommendations of the State Board of Dental Examiners
1-20 for the inspections of dental electronic products, the Texas State
1-21 Board of Podiatry Examiners for the inspection of podiatric medical
1-22 electronic products, the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners for
1-23 the inspection of medical electronic products, the Texas State
1-24 Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners for the inspection of medical
2-1 electronic products used in the practice of veterinary medicine,
2-2 and the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for the inspection of
2-3 chiropractic electronic products, unless in conflict with federal
2-4 statutes or federal rules.
2-5 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.