By: Kubiak H.B. No. 1068 73R5040 CAG-F 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.