1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 212
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;
1-3 April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health
1-4 and Human Services; May 7, 1997, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 7, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the advisory function of the Texas Radiation Advisory
1-9 Board.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 401.019, Health and Safety Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 401.019. Advisory Board Duties. The advisory board
1-14 shall:
1-15 (1) review and evaluate state radiation policies and
1-16 programs;
1-17 (2) make recommendations [to the department] and
1-18 furnish technical advice that may be required on matters relating
1-19 to development, use, and regulation of sources of radiation to the
1-20 department, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the
1-21 Railroad Commission of Texas, and other state agencies; and
1-22 (3) review proposed [department] rules and guidelines
1-23 of the department, the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
1-24 Commission, the Railroad Commission of Texas, and other state
1-25 agencies relating to regulation of sources of radiation and
1-26 recommend changes in proposed or existing rules and guidelines
1-27 relating to those matters.
1-28 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
1-29 Code, is amended by adding Section 401.020 to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 401.020. DUTY OF AGENCIES WITH RADIATION-RELATED
1-31 PROGRAMS. A state agency shall:
1-32 (1) consider the recommendations and advice of the
1-33 advisory board that concern the agency's policies or programs
1-34 related to the development, use, or regulation of a source of
1-35 radiation; and
1-36 (2) provide the advisory board a written response to
1-37 the recommendations or advice.
1-38 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
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