1-1     By:  Kubiak (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)             H.B. No. 2170

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; May 5, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 5, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to late fees for a person licensed to process radioactive

 1-9     materials.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.        Section 401.301(c), Health and Safety Code,

1-12     is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (c)  The department may collect a fee, in addition to the

1-14     annual license and registration fee, of not less than 20 percent of

1-15     the amount of the annual license and registration fee [$100] nor

1-16     more than $10,000 per annum from each licensee or registrant who

1-17     fails to pay the fees authorized by this section.

1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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