By Goolsby H.B. No. 1836
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the interval between internal inspections of certain
1-3 boilers.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 ARTICLE 1
1-6 SECTION 1.01. Section 755.026(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-7 amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) With the approval of the commissioner and the inspection
1-9 agency that has jurisdiction for the power [that] boiler, the
1-10 interval between internal inspections [of a boiler] may be extended
1-11 to a period not exceeding a total of 48 [24] months [for power
1-12 boilers]. For other unfired steam boilers, the inspection interval
1-13 may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the [that]
1-14 boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.
1-15 ARTICLE 2
1-16 SECTION 2.01. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-17 SECTION 2.02. 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.