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.