H.B. No. 3918
 
 
 
 
AN ACT
  relating to testing liquefied petroleum gas systems in certain
  school facilities.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 113.352(a), (b), and (c), Natural
  Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Each school district shall perform leakage [pressure]
  tests for leakage on the LP-gas piping system in each school
  district facility at least biennially. The tests must be performed
  before the beginning of the school year.
         (b)  The school district may perform the leakage [pressure]
  tests on a two-year cycle under which the tests are performed for
  the LP-gas piping systems of approximately one-half of the
  facilities each year.
         (c)  If a school district operates one or more school
  district facilities on a year-round calendar, the leakage
  [pressure] test in each of those facilities must be conducted and
  reported not later than July 1 of the year in which the test is
  performed.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 113.353(a) and (b), Natural Resources
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The school district shall perform the leakage
  [pressure] test to determine whether the LP-gas piping system holds
  at least the amount of pressure specified by the commission
  [National Fire Protection Association 54, National Fuel Gas Code].
         (b)  The leakage [pressure] test must be conducted in
  accordance with commission rules [National Fire Protection
  Association 54].
         SECTION 3.  Sections 113.354(a) and (c), Natural Resources
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A school district shall retain documentation [provide
  written notice to the commission] specifying the date and the
  result of each leakage [pressure] test or other inspection of each
  [the] LP-gas piping system until at least the fifth anniversary of
  the date the test or other inspection was performed.
         (c)  The commission may review a school district's
  documentation of each leakage test or other inspection conducted by
  the school district [shall maintain a copy of the notice provided
  under Subsection (a) until at least the first anniversary of the
  date the commission received the notice].
         SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act applies
  beginning with the 2009-2010 school year.
         SECTION 5.  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, 2009.
 
 
  ______________________________ ______________________________
     President of the Senate Speaker of the House     
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3918 was passed by the House on April
  30, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not
  voting.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House   
 
 
         I certify that H.B. No. 3918 was passed by the Senate on May
  26, 2009, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
 
  ______________________________
  Secretary of the Senate    
  APPROVED:  _____________________
                     Date          
   
            _____________________
                   Governor