Bill Text: TX HB899 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
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 | |
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| 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. | ||
