Amend SB 229 as follows:
      (1)  Insert a new SECTION 7 of the bill (Committee Printing,
page 2, between lines 28 and 29) to read as follows:
      SECTION 7.  Subsection (a), Section 6, Air Conditioning and
Refrigeration Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas
Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
      (a)  This Act does not apply to a person who:
            (1)  performs air conditioning and refrigeration
contracting in a building owned solely by him as his home;
            (2)  performs air conditioning or refrigeration
maintenance work if (i) the person is a maintenance man or
maintenance engineer who is a regular bona fide employee of the
property owner, the property lessee, or the management company
managing the property where the maintenance work is being
performed, (ii) the work is performed in connection with the
business in which the person is employed, and (iii) the person and
the person's employer referred to in (i) above do not engage in the
occupation of air conditioning and refrigeration contracting for
the general public;
            (3)  performs air conditioning and refrigeration
contracting and is regularly employed by a regulated electric or
gas utility;
            (4)  is licensed as a professional engineer under The
Texas Engineering Practice Act (Article 3271a, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes), performs work in connection with the business in which
the person is employed, and does not engage in the practice of air
conditioning and refrigeration contracting for the general public;
            (5)  performs process cooling or heating work for an
industrial operation such as a chemical plant, petrochemical plant,
refinery, natural gas plant, or natural gas treating plant when
employed by that operation;
            (6)  performs air conditioning and refrigeration
contracting on:
                  (A)  a portable or self-contained ductless air
conditioning or refrigeration product that has a cooling capacity
of three tons or less;
                  (B)  a portable or self-contained heating product
that does not require the forced movement of air outside the
heating unit; or
                  (C)  environmental air conditioning equipment
that is intended for temporary use and is not fixed in place; <or>
            (7)  performs air conditioning services only on a motor
vehicle air conditioning unit or who employs a person who performs
air conditioning services only on a motor vehicle air conditioning
unit; or
            (8)  performs air conditioning and refrigeration
maintenance work on evaporative coolers.
      (2)  Renumber current SECTION 7 and the subsequent sections
of the bill appropriately.