By Olivo H.B. No. 3469
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain county and public health district fees.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 437.0123(a), Health and Safety Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) A county that has a population of at least 300,000 [2.8
1-7 million] or a public health district at least part of which is in a
1-8 county that has a population of at least 300,000 [2.8 million] may
1-9 require the payment of a fee for issuing or renewing a permit or
1-10 for performing an inspection to enforce this chapter or a rule
1-11 adopted under this chapter.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.