Bill Text: TX HB899 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 899 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to prohibiting a licensing authority from taking disciplinary action against certain license holders for violating an emergency management plan or a rule, order, or ordinance issued under the plan.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-01 - Referred to State Affairs [HB899 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB899-Introduced.html

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	By: Middleton	H.B. No. 899



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to prohibiting a licensing authority from taking
	disciplinary action against certain license holders for violating
	an emergency management plan or a rule, order, or ordinance issued
	under the plan.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, is
	amended by adding Section 418.1731 to reads as follows:
	Sec. 418.1731. ACTION AGAINST LICENSE HOLDER PROHIBITED.
	(a) In this section:
	(1) "License" means a license, registration,
	certificate, permit, or other authorization issued by a licensing
	authority that a person must obtain to practice or engage in a
	particular business, occupation, or profession.
	(2) "Licensing authority" means a department,
	commission, board, office, or other agency of the state that issues
	a license.
	(b) A licensing authority may not revoke, suspend, or refuse
	to renew a license, reprimand a license holder, impose an
	administrative penalty on a license holder, or take any other
	disciplinary action against a license holder based on the license
	holder's failure to comply with a state, local, or
	interjurisdictional emergency management plan or with a rule,
	order, or ordinance adopted under the plan.
	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, 2021.