74R9574 PB-D
          By Carona                                              H.B. No. 801
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 801:
          By Goolsby                                         C.S.H.B. No. 801
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to persons who may inspect certain air conditioning
    1-3  systems as part of a real estate inspection.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 23(c), The Real Estate License Act
    1-6  (Article 6573a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
    1-7  adding Subdivision (4) to read as follows:
    1-8              (4)  In addition to the license requirements imposed
    1-9  under Subdivisions (1)-(3) of this subsection, a business entity
   1-10  that inspects an environmental air conditioning system, commercial
   1-11  refrigeration system, or process cooling or heating system as part
   1-12  of a real estate inspection conducted under this Act must employ a
   1-13  person who holds the appropriate air conditioning and refrigeration
   1-14  contractor licenses and endorsements under the Air Conditioning and
   1-15  Refrigeration Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas
   1-16  Civil Statutes).  An employee who does not hold a license or
   1-17  endorsement under the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractor
   1-18  License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) may
   1-19  perform the inspection under the direction of the license holder.
   1-20  For purposes of this Act, "inspection" of environmental air
   1-21  conditioning, commercial refrigeration, and process cooling and
   1-22  heating equipment means an inspection that includes the use of
   1-23  electronic instruments, gauges, thermometers, mechanical
   1-24  instruments, or other meters that require direct in-line connection
    2-1  to the refrigerant system.
    2-2        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
    2-3  applies only to a real estate inspection that is conducted on or
    2-4  after that date.  A real estate inspection conducted before that
    2-5  date is governed by the law in effect on the date that the
    2-6  inspection occurs, and the former law is continued in effect for
    2-7  that purpose.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.