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.