&nbsp; <font style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><strong>Legislative Session</strong>: 84(R)</font><br/><br/>

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  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
  font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>House Bill 942</span></b></p>
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  font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>House Author:</span></b><span
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  font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Effective:</span></b><span
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  font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Senate Sponsor:</span></b><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>  Birdwell</span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>            <a name=start></a>House Bill 942
amends provisions of the Agriculture Code, Health and Safety Code, and Water
Code relating to the storage of certain hazardous materials, including ammonium
nitrate, and the regulation of such storage. Among other provisions, the bill transfers
from the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality (TCEQ) the powers, duties, obligations, and liabilities
of DSHS relating to the Texas Community Right-To-Know Acts (<span
style=''>TCRAs)</span>; provides for the required filing of updated
tier two forms with TCEQ by a facility operator and the provision of a copy of
such a form to the appropriate fire chief and local emergency planning
committee, the state fire marshal, and the Texas Division of Emergency
Management; caps the amount of the penalty against a facility operator who
violates certain TCRAs; subjects a person who knowingly discloses false
information or negligently fails to disclose a hazard as required by certain
TCRAs to a civil penalty; and makes it an offense to proximately cause an
occupational disease or injury to an individual by knowingly disclosing false
information or knowingly failing to disclose hazard information as required by those
TCRAs.  The bill takes effect September 1, 2015, except that the Agriculture
Code provisions regarding fire prevention at ammonium nitrate storage
facilities take effect June 16, 2015.</span></p>

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