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         By:  Carona                                  S.B. No. 1065

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the interval between internal inspection of boilers;

 1-2     amending Section 755.026 of the Health and Safety Code.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4                                  ARTICLE 1

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 755.026, Texas Health and

 1-6     Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  With the approval of the commissioner and the inspection

 1-8     agency that has jurisdiction for the power [that] boiler, the

 1-9     interval between internal inspections [of a boiler] may be extended

1-10     to a period not exceeding a total of 48 [24] months [for power

1-11     boilers].  For other unfired steam boilers or steam collection or

1-12     liberation drums of process steam generators, the inspection

1-13     interval may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the

1-14     [that] boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.

1-15                                  ARTICLE 2

1-16           SECTION 2.01  This Act takes affect 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.