By Torres H.B. No. 1541 74R3767 JMM-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the prohibition of the sale or transfer of certain 1-3 plumbing fixtures. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 14, The Plumbing License Law (Article 1-6 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by adding 1-7 Subsection (f) to read as follows: 1-8 (f) A person or other entity may not sell, donate, or 1-9 transfer a water closet plumbing fixture that may permit siphonage 1-10 or backflow of the contents of a toilet bowl back into the flush 1-11 tank. The board shall adopt rules under this subsection that 1-12 include a list of the types of plumbing fixtures to which this 1-13 subsection applies. 1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-15 (b) The change in law made by Section 1 of this Act applies 1-16 only to a plumbing fixture sold, donated, or transferred on or 1-17 after January 1, 1996. 1-18 (c) The Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall adopt 1-19 rules under this Act not later than January 1, 1996. 1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.