By Seidlits                                            H.B. No. 785
       74R4262 PB-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the regulation of manufactured housing.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 7A, Texas Manufactured Housing Standards
    1-5  Act (Article 5221f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 7A.  CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS. (a) The commissioner
    1-8  may recognize, prepare, or administer continuing education programs
    1-9  for persons regulated under this Act.
   1-10        (b)  The commissioner may require participation
   1-11  <Participation> in a continuing education program under Subsection
   1-12  (a) of this section for renewal of a registration under this Act
   1-13  <the programs is voluntary>.  If the commissioner elects to require
   1-14  participation in a continuing education program, the commissioner
   1-15  shall publish notice and conduct a public hearing in the manner
   1-16  required under Chapter 2001, Government Code, and the continuing
   1-17  education requirement may not take effect before the 30th day after
   1-18  the date on which the public hearing is held.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Section 9(c), Texas Manufactured Housing
   1-20  Standards Act (Article 5221f, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
   1-21  amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (c)  The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations,
   1-23  promulgate administrative orders, and take all actions necessary to
   1-24  comply with the provisions of the National Manufactured Home
    2-1  Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974  and to provide for
    2-2  the effective enforcement of all HUD-code manufactured home
    2-3  construction and safety standards in order to have its state plan
    2-4  approved by the secretary of the United States Department of
    2-5  Housing and Urban Development.  <The state plan must provide that a
    2-6  manufacturer may, at its option, choose a third-party inspection
    2-7  agency that is approved by the commission and authorized by the
    2-8  Department of Housing and Urban Development to act as the In Plant
    2-9  Inspection Agency.  However, the manufacturer may not change from
   2-10  one third-party In Plant Inspection Agency to another without the
   2-11  approval of the commission.>
   2-12        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.