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.

1-31                                  * * * * *