1-1 By: Carona S.B. No. 1065
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1997; March 12, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 4, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1065 By: Carona
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the interval between internal inspections of certain
1-11 boilers.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 755.026, Health and
1-14 Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (a) With the approval of the commissioner and the inspection
1-16 agency that has jurisdiction for the power [that] boiler, the
1-17 interval between internal inspections [of a boiler] may be extended
1-18 to a period not exceeding a total of 48 [24] months [for power
1-19 boilers]. For other unfired steam boilers, the inspection interval
1-20 may be extended to the next scheduled downtime of the [that]
1-21 boiler, but not exceeding a total of 84 [60] months.
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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