By Yarbrough                                          H.B. No. 2921
                                 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 2306.021(b), Government Code, is amended
    1-5  to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The department is composed of:
    1-7              (1)  the community affairs division;
    1-8              (2)  the housing finance division; <and>
    1-9              (3)  the manufactured housing division; and
   1-10              (4)  any other division created by the director.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Chapter 2306, Government Code, is amended by
   1-12  adding a new subchapter to read as follows:
   1-13             SUBCHAPTER Y.  MANUFACTURED HOUSING DIVISION
   1-14        Sec. 2306.600.  MANUFACTURED HOUSING REGULATION.  (a)  The
   1-15  department shall administer and enforce the Texas Manufactured
   1-16  Housing Standards Act (article 5221f, Vernon's Texas Civil
   1-17  Statutes).
   1-18        (b)  The definitions in Section 2306.004 of this chapter
   1-19  apply to this subchapter.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The Texas Manufactured Housing Standards Act is
   1-21  amended by amending subsections (5), (6), and (8) of Section 3 to
   1-22  read as follows:
   1-23              (5)  "Commission" means and refers to the governing
    2-1  board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs <The
    2-2  Texas Commission of Licensing and regulation>.
    2-3              (6)  "Commissioner" means and refers to the executive
    2-4  director of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs
    2-5  <the commissioner of licensing and regulation>.
    2-6              (8)  "Department" means the Texas Department of Housing
    2-7  and Community Affairs <Licensing and Regulation>.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  This Act is effective September 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.