By Gray                                               H.B. No. 2636
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the assessment of certain fees on persons who perform
 1-3     radiologic procedures.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2.09, Medical Radiologic Technologist
 1-6     Certification Act (Article 4512m, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
 1-7     is amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
 1-8     read as follows:
 1-9           (d)  The Texas Board of Health may set fees:
1-10                 (1)  for examination, certificate issuance, and
1-11     certificate renewal; and
1-12                 (2)  as necessary to register a person required to
1-13     comply with Section 2.05(f) of this Act or to process an
1-14     application under Section 2.05(i) of this Act for a hardship
1-15     exemption from the registration requirement.
1-16           (e)  The Texas Board of Health shall set [the] fees under
1-17     Subsection (d) in amounts that are reasonable to cover the costs of
1-18     administering this Act without the use of additional general
1-19     revenue funds.
1-20           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.