Bill Text: TX SB1885 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to notice of a radioactive substance release.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1885 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1885-Introduced.html
| 86R5658 SCL-D | ||
| By: Kolkhorst | S.B. No. 1885 | |
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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. | ||
| Notwithstanding Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, or any | ||
| other law requiring confidentiality, a person who accidentally | ||
| releases a radioactive substance into the environment shall | ||
| immediately notify each political subdivision of this state into | ||
| which the substance was released. | ||
| 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. | ||
