By Seidlits                                           H.B. No. 2109
       74R7490 KLL-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exempting elevators, escalators, and related equipment
    1-3  in certain buildings from regulation.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 754, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 754.0111 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 754.0111.  EXEMPTION.  This subchapter does not apply to
    1-8  an elevator, escalator, or related equipment in a private building
    1-9  for a labor union, trade association, private club, or charitable
   1-10  organization that has two or fewer floors.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.