By: Campbell H.B. No. 2136 73R665 KLL-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Board of Health to adopt 1-3 rules imposing occupational safety and health regulations on 1-4 political subdivisions of the state. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Health and Safety Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 12.004 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 12.004. OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS FOR POLITICAL 1-9 SUBDIVISIONS. The board may not adopt rules that require political 1-10 subdivisions of the state to comply with Occupational Safety and 1-11 Health Administration regulations. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.