By: Eltife S.B. No. 1442
(In the Senate - Filed March 12, 2015; March 18, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
April 8, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 8, 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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