By Pickett H.B. No. 930
75R4750 JMM-D
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.