By Swinford H.B. No. 2701 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the inspection and certification of elevators and 1-3 related equipment. 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 Subchapter B, Chapter 754, Health and Safety 1-6 Code, is repealed. 1-7 SECTION 2. (a) The repeal by this Act of Subchapter B, 1-8 Chapter 754, Health and Safety Code, does not apply to an offense 1-9 committed under that subchapter before the effective date of the 1-10 repeal. For purposes of this section, an offense is committed 1-11 before the effective date of the repeal if any element of the 1-12 offense occurs before that date. 1-13 (b) An offense committed before the effective date of the 1-14 repeal is covered by that subchapter as it existed on the date on 1-15 which the offense was committed, and the former law is continued in 1-16 effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.