1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to late fees for a person licensed to process radioactive

 1-3     materials.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.        Section 401.301(c), Health and Safety Code,

 1-6     is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  The department may collect a fee, in addition to the

 1-8     annual license and registration fee, of not less than 20 percent of

 1-9     the amount of the annual license and registration fee [$100] nor

1-10     more than $10,000 per annum from each licensee or registrant who

1-11     fails to pay the fees authorized by this section.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2170 was passed by the House on April

         3, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2170 was passed by the Senate on May

         12, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor