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.