Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 81(R)

House Bill 2763

House Author:  Kuempel

Effective: See Below

Senate Sponsor:  Eltife


            House Bill 2763 amends the Occupations Code to require a relocatable educational facility that is purchased or leased on or after January 1, 2010, to comply with all provisions applicable to industrialized buildings and repeals an Education Code provision relating to the inspection of such a facility.  The bill removes a qualification regarding the measuring of certain  residential or commercial structures for purposes of classifying industrialized housing and buildings and specifies that provisions relating to the effect of building code amendments for industrialized housing and buildings refer to an industrialized building designed to be transported from one commercial site to another.  The bill requires the owner of such a building that has been modified or altered and meets specified requirements to ensure that the building complies with certain building code requirements and standards and removes provisions that require the owner to ensure that the entire building or the modified or altered portion of the building complies with the mandatory building code or its amendments under certain conditions.  The bill takes effect September 1, 2009, except that the provision relating to the repeal takes effect December 31, 2009.