By Pickett                                             H.B. No. 930

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the examination of an applicant for an air conditioning

 1-3     and refrigeration contractor license.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 3(e), Air Conditioning and Refrigeration

 1-6     Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil

 1-7     Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

 1-8           (e)  The commissioner shall prescribe the method and content

 1-9     of examinations administered under this Act and shall set

1-10     compliance requirements for the examinations.  The examinations

1-11     shall be offered at locations within the state determined by the

1-12     commissioner [only in Travis County] and shall be offered on a

1-13     monthly [quarterly] basis or more frequently as determined by the

1-14     commissioner.  The examination may be offered by computer at

1-15     locations within the state determined by the commissioner.

1-16           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           (b)  The commissioner of licensing and regulation shall adopt

1-18     rules under this Act not later than January 1, 1998.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.