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.