1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1012
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1997;
1-3 April 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the appointment of an environmental health officer in a
1-10 home-rule municipality.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 341.082(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-13 amended to read as follows:
1-14 (a) In a home-rule municipality [with a population of at
1-15 least one million], an environmental health officer may be
1-16 appointed to enforce this chapter.
1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
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