1-1 By: Pickett (Senate Sponsor - Carona) H.B. No. 930
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 1997;
1-3 April 14, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 International Relations, Trade, and Technology; April 24, 1997,
1-5 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the examination of an applicant for an air conditioning
1-10 and refrigeration contractor license.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 3(e), Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
1-13 Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-14 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (e) The commissioner shall prescribe the method and content
1-16 of examinations administered under this Act and shall set
1-17 compliance requirements for the examinations. The examinations
1-18 shall be offered at locations within the state determined by the
1-19 commissioner [only in Travis County] and shall be offered on a
1-20 monthly [quarterly] basis or more frequently as determined by the
1-21 commissioner. The examination may be offered by computer at
1-22 locations within the state determined by the commissioner.
1-23 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-24 (b) The commissioner of licensing and regulation shall adopt
1-25 rules under this Act not later than January 1, 1998.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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