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.