By Madla S.B. No. 967 74R3519 MI-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to requiring financial assurance from certain persons who 1-3 use or store electroplating bath solutions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 361, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is amended by adding Section 361.040 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 361.040. FINANCIAL ASSURANCE REQUIRED FOR USERS OF 1-8 ELECTROPLATING BATH SOLUTION. (a) The commission by rule shall 1-9 require a person to provide to the commission a bond or other 1-10 financial assurance if the person, in the regular course of 1-11 business, uses or stores in inventory on the property on which the 1-12 business is conducted an electroplating bath solution. The bond or 1-13 other financial assurance must be in the form and amount prescribed 1-14 by commission rule and conditioned on the person's satisfactorily 1-15 operating and closing the business that uses the electroplating 1-16 bath solution. 1-17 (b) The commission shall set the amount of the bond or 1-18 financial assurance according to the total volume of 1-19 electroplating bath solution used or stored on the property and in 1-20 proportion to the degree and duration of risk associated with the 1-21 use or storage of that solution. 1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.