By Bosse                                               H.B. No. 276
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the maximum flow requirement for a toilet installed in
    1-3  certain remodeled buildings.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 372.002, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended by amending Subsection (f) and adding Subsection (g) to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (f)  This section does not apply to:
    1-9              (1)  a plumbing fixture that has been ordered by or is
   1-10  in the inventory of a building contractor or a wholesaler or
   1-11  retailer of plumbing fixtures on January 1, 1992;
   1-12              (2)  a fixture, such as a safety shower or aspirator
   1-13  faucet, that, because of the fixture's specialized function, cannot
   1-14  meet the standards provided by this section;
   1-15              (3)  a fixture originally installed before January 1,
   1-16  1992, that is removed and reinstalled in the same building on or
   1-17  after that date; <or>
   1-18              (4)  a fixture imported only for use at the importer's
   1-19  domicile; or
   1-20              (5)  except as provided by Subsection (g), a toilet
   1-21  installed during the remodeling of a building if:
   1-22                    (A)  the sewer pipes were laid before January 1,
   1-23  1992, and are not replaced during the remodeling; and
   1-24                    (B)  the size of those sewer pipes and the degree
    2-1  of fall will not accommodate the maximum flow for a toilet set by
    2-2  this section.
    2-3        (g)  Subsection (f)(5) does not exempt a toilet from
    2-4  standards set by a local ordinance if those standards are
    2-5  equivalent to the standards set under Subsection (b).
    2-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.