By Chisum H.B. No. 211
74R183 JJT-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the advisory function of the Texas Radiation Advisory
1-3 Board.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 401.019, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 401.019. Advisory Board Duties. The advisory board
1-8 shall:
1-9 (1) review and evaluate state radiation policies and
1-10 programs;
1-11 (2) make recommendations <to the department> and
1-12 furnish technical advice that may be required on matters relating
1-13 to development, use, and regulation of sources of radiation to the
1-14 department, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the
1-15 Railroad Commission of Texas, and other state agencies; and
1-16 (3) review proposed <department> rules and guidelines
1-17 of the department, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
1-18 Commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and other state
1-19 agencies relating to regulation of sources of radiation and
1-20 recommend changes in proposed or existing rules and guidelines
1-21 relating to those matters.
1-22 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
1-23 Code, is amended by adding Section 401.020 to read as follows:
1-24 Sec. 401.020. DUTY OF AGENCIES WITH RADIATION-RELATED
2-1 PROGRAMS. A state agency shall:
2-2 (1) consider the recommendations and advice of the
2-3 advisory board that concern the agency's policies or programs
2-4 related to the development, use, or regulation of a source of
2-5 radiation;
2-6 (2) provide the advisory board a written response to
2-7 the recommendations or advice; and
2-8 (3) publish a summary of the recommendations or advice
2-9 and the written response in the Texas Register.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.