By: Nieto H.B. No. 2462
73R6547 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of residential water treatment
1-3 facilities.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2(g), The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-6 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (g) "Water treatment" is a business which is conducted under
1-9 contract and requires ability<, experience,> and skill in the
1-10 analysis of water to determine how to treat influent and effluent
1-11 water to alter or purify the water or to add or remove a mineral,
1-12 chemical, or bacterial content or substance. The term includes the
1-13 installation and service of fixed or portable water treatment
1-14 equipment or a treatment apparatus, in public or private water
1-15 treatment systems. The term also includes the making of
1-16 connections necessary to the installation of a water treatment
1-17 system.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 3A(a), The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-19 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-20 follows:
1-21 (a) The Commissioner of Health or his designee shall certify
1-22 persons as being qualified for the installation, exchange,
1-23 servicing, and repair of residential water treatment facilities as
1-24 defined by Subsection (g) of Section 2 of this Act. The Texas
2-1 Board of Health shall set standards for certification to ensure the
2-2 public health and to protect the public from unqualified persons
2-3 engaging in activities relating to water treatment. The board may
2-4 not by rule require that an applicant for certification under this
2-5 section have work experience in residential water treatment if the
2-6 applicant has a college degree and meets the other requirements for
2-7 certification. Nothing in this section shall be construed to
2-8 require that persons licensed pursuant to this Act are subject to
2-9 certification under this section.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.