By: Miles (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 3091
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2015;
April 30, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; May 15, 2015, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the standards for boiler inspection agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 755.032(a), Health and Safety Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commission may adopt and enforce rules, in
accordance with standard boiler usage, for the construction,
inspection, installation, use, maintenance, repair, alteration,
and operation of boilers. The commission may adopt standards for an
inspection agency to be authorized by the department to provide
inspections under this chapter.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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