1-1 By: Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 1836
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 17, 1997;
1-3 April 18, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; April 30, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 30, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Carona
1-7 Amend H.B. No. 1836, by adding a new SECTION 1 to read as follows
1-8 and renumbering all succeeding sections accordingly:
1-9 SECTION 1. Section 755.025, Health and Safety Code, is
1-10 amended by adding a new subsection (f) to read as follows and
1-11 relettering all succeeding subsections accordingly:
1-12 (f) The certificate inspection of all gas fired boilers
1-13 shall include inspection of the gas regulator and/or pressure
1-14 reducing valve servicing the boiler to verify proper venting to a
1-15 safe point of discharge.
1-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17 AN ACT
1-18 relating to the interval between internal inspections of certain
1-19 boilers.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 ARTICLE 1
1-22 SECTION 1.01. Section 755.026(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-23 amended to read as follows:
1-24 (a) With the approval of the commissioner and the inspection
1-25 agency that has jurisdiction for the power [that] boiler, the
1-26 interval between internal inspections [of a boiler] may be extended
1-27 to a period not exceeding a total of 48 [24] months [for power
1-28 boilers]. For other unfired steam boilers, the inspection interval
1-29 may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the [that]
1-30 boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.
1-31 ARTICLE 2
1-32 SECTION 2.01. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-33 SECTION 2.02. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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