H.B. No. 1938
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of the Petroleum Storage Tank Advisory
1-3 Committee.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1(2), Chapter 244, Acts of the 71st
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8900, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (2) "Committee" means the Petroleum <Underground>
1-9 Storage Tank Advisory Committee.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 10, Chapter 244, Acts of the 71st
1-11 Legislature, Regular Session, 1989 (Article 8900, Vernon's Texas
1-12 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 10. ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) The Petroleum
1-14 <Underground> Storage Tank Advisory Committee is established.
1-15 (b) The committee is composed of nine members appointed by
1-16 the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Committee
1-17 members serve for staggered six-year terms, with the terms of three
1-18 members expiring February 1 of each odd-numbered year. A member is
1-19 not eligible for appointment to successive terms.
1-20 (c) The governor shall appoint all members of the committee,
1-21 of whom: <one member from each of the following geographical areas
1-22 of this state:>
1-23 <(1) the Gulf Coast area;>
1-24 <(2) the Trans-Pecos area;>
2-1 <(3) the central Texas area;>
2-2 <(4) the northeast Texas area; and>
2-3 <(5) the Panhandle-South Plains area.>
2-4 (1) no more than three members may be appointed from a
2-5 single metropolitan area;
2-6 (2) three <(d) Three> members <of the committee> must
2-7 be persons with experience in the operation <installation> of
2-8 underground storage tanks; <and who must obtain an installer's
2-9 license from the commission within two years of the effective date
2-10 of this Act.>
2-11 (3) one member <(e) Two members> must be a
2-12 professional engineer <engineers> registered to practice in this
2-13 state;<.>
2-14 (4) one <(f) One> member must be a person who is not
2-15 eligible for a license under this Act but who has demonstrated
2-16 experience in environmental protection, fire protection, or the
2-17 operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks;<.>
2-18 (5) three <(g) Three> members must be persons who own
2-19 construction firms engaged in installation of underground petroleum
2-20 storage tanks <engineering construction> in the State of Texas; and
2-21 (6) one member must be a representative of the
2-22 financial industry with experience in underground storage tank
2-23 corrective action.
2-24 (d) <(h)> The governor annually shall designate one member
2-25 to serve as chairman. The committee, at a minimum, shall meet
2-26 quarterly, at the call of the chairman, or at the call of the
2-27 chairman of the commission.
3-1 (e) <(i)> The committee shall provide technical expertise to
3-2 the commission regarding petroleum <underground> storage tanks and
3-3 shall advise the commission in the adoption of rules pertaining to
3-4 the commission's petroleum storage tank program (31 TAC Chapter
3-5 334) and for the licensing and regulation of installers and
3-6 corrective action specialists.
3-7 <(j) A committee member is entitled to receive the
3-8 compensatory per diem authorized by the General Appropriations Act
3-9 for each day spent in performing the member's official duties, and
3-10 to reimbursement for expenses incurred in performing those duties
3-11 to the extent permitted by the General Appropriations Act.>
3-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-18 passage, and it is so enacted.