By: Gallego H.B. No. 1561 73R5343 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the Texas Commission on Fire Protection to 1-3 set and collect a fee for furnishing laboratory services in an 1-4 arson investigation. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 419, Government Code, is 1-7 amended by adding Section 419.907 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 419.907. FEE FOR LABORATORY SERVICES. (a) The 1-9 commission may set and collect a fee from a person who requests the 1-10 commission to furnish laboratory services in connection with an 1-11 investigation of arson or suspected arson. 1-12 (b) The fee must be set in an amount designed to recover the 1-13 commission's costs in furnishing the services, except that the 1-14 commission shall consult with the Department of Public Safety and: 1-15 (1) the amount of the fee may not exceed the amount 1-16 charged by the department for furnishing substantially similar 1-17 services; and 1-18 (2) the commission must waive the fee for a 1-19 governmental entity for which the department waives the fee when 1-20 the department furnishes substantially similar services for the 1-21 entity. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.