By Uher H.B. No. 660
74R2945 PB-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an exemption from the regulation of air conditioning
1-3 and refrigeration contractors.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 6(a), Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
1-6 Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) This Act does not apply to a person who:
1-9 (1) performs air conditioning and refrigeration
1-10 contracting in a building owned solely by him as his home;
1-11 (2) performs air conditioning or refrigeration
1-12 maintenance work if (i) the person is a maintenance man or
1-13 maintenance engineer who is a regular bona fide employee of the
1-14 property owner, the property lessee, or the management company
1-15 managing the property where the maintenance work is being
1-16 performed, (ii) the work is performed in connection with the
1-17 business in which the person is employed, and (iii) the person and
1-18 the person's employer referred to in (i) above do not engage in the
1-19 occupation of air conditioning and refrigeration contracting for
1-20 the general public;
1-21 (3) performs air conditioning and refrigeration
1-22 contracting and is regularly employed by a regulated electric or
1-23 gas utility;
1-24 (4) is licensed as a professional engineer under The
2-1 Texas Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-2 Statutes), performs work in connection with the business in which
2-3 the person is employed, and does not engage in the practice of air
2-4 conditioning and refrigeration contracting for the general public;
2-5 (5) performs process cooling or heating work for an
2-6 industrial operation such as a chemical plant, petrochemical plant,
2-7 refinery, natural gas plant, or natural gas treating plant <when
2-8 employed by that operation>;
2-9 (6) performs air conditioning and refrigeration
2-10 contracting on:
2-11 (A) a portable or self-contained ductless air
2-12 conditioning or refrigeration product that has a cooling capacity
2-13 of three tons or less;
2-14 (B) a portable or self-contained heating product
2-15 that does not require the forced movement of air outside the
2-16 heating unit; or
2-17 (C) environmental air conditioning equipment
2-18 that is intended for temporary use and is not fixed in place; or
2-19 (7) performs air conditioning services only on a motor
2-20 vehicle air conditioning unit or who employs a person who performs
2-21 air conditioning services only on a motor vehicle air conditioning
2-22 unit.
2-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.