By Goolsby H.B. No. 1836
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the interval between internal inspection of boilers;
1-3 amending Section 755.026 of the Health and Safety Code.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 ARTICLE 1
1-6 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 755.026, Texas Health and
1-7 Safety Code, is 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 or steam collection or
1-13 liberation drums of process steam generators, the inspection
1-14 interval may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the
1-15 [that] boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.
1-16 ARTICLE 2
1-17 SECTION 2.01. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 2.02. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-23 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
1-24 Beginning with line 12, delete the words "or steam collection
2-1 or liberation drums of process steam generators",
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