1-1 By: Patterson S.B. No. 1010
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 26, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 26, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Harris of Dallas x
1-10 Rosson x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Leedom x
1-14 Lucio x
1-15 Luna x
1-16 Nelson x
1-17 Patterson x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 Sibley x
1-20 West x
1-21 Whitmire x
1-22 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1010 By: Patterson
1-23 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-24 AN ACT
1-25 relating to the bonding or insurance requirements of certain
1-26 political subdivisions for the performance of plumbing work.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Section 15, The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-29 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-30 follows:
1-31 Sec. 15. LOCAL <MUNICIPAL> RULES AND REGULATIONS.
1-32 (a) Every city in this state of more than five thousand (5,000)
1-33 inhabitants shall, and any city or town of this state may, by
1-34 ordinance or by-law, prescribe rules and regulations for the
1-35 materials, construction, alteration and inspection of all pipes,
1-36 faucets, tanks, valves and other fixtures by and through which a
1-37 supply of water, gas or sewage is used or carried; and provided
1-38 that they shall not be placed in any building therein except in
1-39 accordance with such rules and regulations; and shall further
1-40 provide that no plumbing shall be done except in case of repairing
1-41 of leaks, without a permit being first issued therefor upon such
1-42 terms and conditions as such city or town shall prescribe; provided
1-43 that no such ordinance, by-law, rule or regulation prescribed by
1-44 any such city or town shall be inconsistent with this Act, or any
1-45 rule or regulation adopted or prescribed by the State Board of
1-46 Plumbing Examiners.
1-47 (b) A political subdivision that requires a master plumber
1-48 to have a bond before the plumber may be issued a permit shall
1-49 accept a certificate of insurance that meets the requirements of
1-50 this subsection in lieu of a bond. The certificate of insurance
1-51 must be written by a company licensed to do business in this state
1-52 and provide for commercial general liability insurance for the
1-53 master plumber for claims for property damage or bodily injury,
1-54 without regard to whether the claim is based on negligence or
1-55 contract, in an amount not less than $300,000 coverage for all
1-56 claims in any one year.
1-57 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-58 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-59 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-60 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-61 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-62 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 Austin,
1-65 Texas
1-66 April 26, 1993
1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-68 President of the Senate
2-1 Sir:
2-2 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-3 1010, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-4 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-5 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-6 pass and be printed.
2-7 Harris of
2-8 Dallas, Chairman
2-9 * * * * *
2-10 WITNESSES
2-11 FOR AGAINST ON
2-12 ___________________________________________________________________
2-13 Name: Gilbert Kissling x
2-14 Representing: State Board of Plumbing Exam
2-15 City: Austin
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