By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 2285

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 2007; May 15, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services; May 18, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 18, 2007, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the renewal period for a license or registration related to radioactive materials and other sources of radiation issued by the Department of State Health Services.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 12.0111(d), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(d) This section does not apply to:

(1) a person regulated under Chapter 773; or

(2) a license or registration under Chapter 401.

SECTION 2. Section 12.0112(b), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(b) This section does not apply to a license issued for:

(1) a youth camp under Chapter 141; or

(2) a license or registration under Chapter 401.

SECTION 3. Sections 401.301(c) and (d), Health and Safety Code, are amended to read as follows:

(c) The department may collect a fee, in addition to the [annual] license and registration fee, of not less than 20 percent of the amount of the [annual] license and registration fee nor more than $10,000 [per annum] from each licensee or registrant who fails to pay the fees authorized by this section.

(d) The department may require that each person who holds a specific license issued by the department [annually] pay to the department an additional five percent of the appropriate [annual] fee set under Subsection (b). Fees collected under this subsection shall be deposited to the credit of the perpetual care account. The fees are not refundable.

SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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