H.B. No. 1826 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to a municipality's retention of a person licensed to 1-3 perform inspections, surveys, or removal of asbestos. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4C, Texas Asbestos Health Protection Act 1-6 (Article 4477-3a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 4C. A person licensed under this Act to perform 1-9 asbestos inspections or surveys, write management plans, or design 1-10 abatement specifications for an asbestos abatement project may not 1-11 also be engaged in the removal of asbestos from that building or 1-12 facility unless retained to do so by a municipality. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.