TITLE: Relating to building standards for youth camps located within or near certain floodplains.

SUMMARY: Relating to building standards for youth camps located within or near certain floodplains.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to building standards for youth camps located within or near certain floodplains. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 141.009, Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 141.009. STANDARDS. (a) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish health and safety standards for youth camps. The standards may relate to: (1) adequate and proper supervision at all times of camp activities; (2) qualifications for directors, supervisors, and staff and sufficient numbers of those persons; (3) proper safeguards for sanitation and public health; (4) adequate medical services for personal health and first aid; (5) proper procedures for food preparation, handling, and mass feeding; (6) healthful and sufficient water supply; (7) proper waste disposal; (8) proper water safety procedures for swimming pools, lakes, and waterways; (9) safe boating equipment; (10) proper maintenance and safe use of motor vehicles; (11) safe buildings and physical facilities; (12) proper fire precautions; (13) safe and proper recreational and other equipment; (14) proper regard for density and use of the premises; and (15) records of criminal convictions of camp personnel. (b) The executive commissioner by rule shall establish minimum building standards for youth camps to minimize and prevent flooding of a camp's buildings and other physical facilities located within a 100-year floodplain or within five feet of a 100-year floodplain. 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.