By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 815
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the adoption of standard plumbing codes by the Texas
    1-2  State Board of Plumbing Examiners.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  The Plumbing License Law (Article 6243-101,
    1-5  Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) is amended by adding Section 5B to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 5B.  ADOPTION OF PLUMBING CODES.  (a)  To protect the
    1-8  health and safety of the citizens of this state, the Board shall
    1-9  adopt the Southern Standard Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing
   1-10  Code, and the National Standard Plumbing Code.
   1-11        (b)  In adopting standards for the proper design,
   1-12  installation, and maintenance of a plumbing system, a municipality
   1-13  or an owner of a public water system may not adopt standards that
   1-14  conflict with rules or laws of this state.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.