1-1 By: Maxey (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 765 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999; 1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on Health 1-4 Services; May 12, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 12, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the processing of certain fees by the Texas Department 1-9 of Health. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter J, Chapter 431, Health and Safety 1-12 Code, is amended by adding Section 431.2245 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 431.2245. PROCESSING OF LICENSING FEES. (a) The 1-14 commissioner shall establish a system for processing licensing fees 1-15 under this chapter, including vended water facility licensing 1-16 fees. 1-17 (b) Under the fee processing system, the maximum time for 1-18 processing a fee payment made by a negotiable instrument may not 1-19 exceed 48 hours, beginning at the time that the negotiable 1-20 instrument is first received by the department and ending at the 1-21 time that the fee payment is submitted for deposit by the 1-22 department to the treasury division of the office of the 1-23 comptroller. 1-24 (c) The comptroller shall cooperate with the commissioner in 1-25 developing the fee processing system. 1-26 SECTION 2. Chapter 432, Health and Safety Code, is amended 1-27 by adding Section 432.0095 to read as follows: 1-28 Sec. 432.0095. PROCESSING OF FOOD SALVAGE ESTABLISHMENT 1-29 LICENSING FEES. (a) The commissioner shall establish a system for 1-30 processing food salvage establishment licensing fees. 1-31 (b) Under the fee processing system, the maximum time for 1-32 processing a fee payment made by a negotiable instrument may not 1-33 exceed 48 hours, beginning at the time that the negotiable 1-34 instrument is first received by the department and ending at the 1-35 time that the fee payment is submitted for deposit by the 1-36 department to the treasury division of the office of the 1-37 comptroller. 1-38 (c) The comptroller shall cooperate with the commissioner in 1-39 developing the fee processing system. 1-40 SECTION 3. The commissioner of public health shall implement 1-41 the fee processing systems required by Sections 431.2245 and 1-42 432.0095, Health and Safety Code, as added by this Act, not later 1-43 than January 1, 2000. 1-44 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-49 * * * * *