1-1 By: Gallegos (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire) H.B. No. 1826 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1993; 1-3 May 6, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 12, 1993, reported favorably by 1-5 the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 12, 1993, sent to 1-6 printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Armbrister x 1-10 Leedom x 1-11 Carriker x 1-12 Henderson x 1-13 Madla x 1-14 Moncrief x 1-15 Patterson x 1-16 Rosson x 1-17 Shapiro x 1-18 Wentworth x 1-19 Whitmire x 1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-21 AN ACT 1-22 relating to a municipality's retention of a person licensed to 1-23 perform inspections, surveys, or removal of asbestos. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Section 4C, Texas Asbestos Health Protection Act 1-26 (Article 4477-3a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to 1-27 read as follows: 1-28 Sec. 4C. A person licensed under this Act to perform 1-29 asbestos inspections or surveys, write management plans, or design 1-30 abatement specifications for an asbestos abatement project may not 1-31 also be engaged in the removal of asbestos from that building or 1-32 facility unless retained to do so by a municipality. 1-33 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-38 * * * * * 1-39 Austin, 1-40 Texas 1-41 May 12, 1993 1-42 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-43 President of the Senate 1-44 Sir: 1-45 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-46 referred H.B. No. 1826, have had the same under consideration, and 1-47 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-48 recommendation that it do pass and be printed. 1-49 Armbrister, 1-50 Chairman 1-51 * * * * * 1-52 WITNESSES 1-53 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1826.