1-1 By: Gray (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 2636
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
1-3 May 6, 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 assessment of certain fees on persons who perform
1-9 radiologic procedures.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2.09, Medical Radiologic Technologist
1-12 Certification Act (Article 4512m, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
1-13 is amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
1-14 read as follows:
1-15 (d) The Texas Board of Health may set fees:
1-16 (1) for examination, certificate issuance, and
1-17 certificate renewal; and
1-18 (2) as necessary to register a person required to
1-19 comply with Section 2.05(f) of this Act or to process an
1-20 application under Section 2.05(i) of this Act for a hardship
1-21 exemption from the registration requirement.
1-22 (e) The Texas Board of Health shall set [the] fees under
1-23 Subsection (d) in amounts that are reasonable to cover the costs of
1-24 administering this Act without the use of additional general
1-25 revenue funds.
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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