73R5040 CAG-F
          By Kubiak                                             H.B. No. 1068
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the adoption of standard plumbing codes by the Texas
    1-3  State Board of Plumbing Examiners.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  The Plumbing License Law (Article 6243-101,
    1-6  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 5B to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 5B.  ADOPTION OF PLUMBING CODES.  (a)  To protect the
    1-9  health and safety of the citizens of this state, the Board shall
   1-10  adopt the Southern Standard Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing
   1-11  Code, and the National Standard Plumbing Code.
   1-12        (b)  In adopting standards for the proper design,
   1-13  installation, and maintenance of a plumbing system, a municipality
   1-14  or an owner of a public water system may not adopt standards that
   1-15  conflict with rules or laws of this state.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-22  passage, and it is so enacted.