By: Lewis H.B. No. 1938
73R6539 MI-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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) three <(d) Three> members <of the committee> must
2-5 be persons with experience in the installation of underground
2-6 storage tanks; <and who must obtain an installer's license from the
2-7 commission within two years of the effective date of this Act.>
2-8 (2) two <(e) Two> members must be professional
2-9 engineers registered to practice in this state;<.>
2-10 (3) one <(f) One> member must be a person who is not
2-11 eligible for a license under this Act but who has demonstrated
2-12 experience in environmental protection, fire protection, or the
2-13 operation and maintenance of underground storage tanks; and<.>
2-14 (4) three <(g) Three> members must be persons who own
2-15 construction firms engaged in engineering construction in the State
2-16 of Texas.
2-17 (d) <(h)> The governor annually shall designate one member
2-18 to serve as chairman. The committee, at a minimum, shall meet
2-19 quarterly, at the call of the chairman, or at the call of the
2-20 chairman of the commission.
2-21 (e) <(i)> The committee shall provide technical expertise to
2-22 the commission regarding petroleum <underground> storage tanks and
2-23 shall advise the commission in the adoption of rules pertaining to
2-24 the commission's petroleum storage tank program (31 TAC Chapter
2-25 334) and for the licensing and regulation of installers and
2-26 corrective action specialists.
2-27 <(j) A committee member is entitled to receive the
3-1 compensatory per diem authorized by the General Appropriations Act
3-2 for each day spent in performing the member's official duties, and
3-3 to reimbursement for expenses incurred in performing those duties
3-4 to the extent permitted by the General Appropriations Act.>
3-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-11 passage, and it is so enacted.