Bill Text: TX HB2203 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to notice of a radioactive substance release.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-31 - Effective immediately [HB2203 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2203-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2203 | ||
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| relating to notice of a radioactive substance release. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 501, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 501.0245 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 501.0245. NOTICE OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE RELEASE. | ||
| (a) In this section, "radioactive substance" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 401.003. | ||
| (b) Notwithstanding Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government | ||
| Code, or any other law requiring confidentiality, the department or | ||
| any other state agency that receives a required report of a release | ||
| of a radioactive substance into the environment shall immediately | ||
| provide notice to each political subdivision of this state into | ||
| which the substance was released. The notice must include the name, | ||
| quantity, and state of matter of the radioactive substance | ||
| released, if known. | ||
| (c) The information contained in the notice provided to a | ||
| political subdivision under Subsection (b) is confidential and not | ||
| subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2203 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2203 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
