By Berlanga H.B. No. 1442
75R5198 GJH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the adoption of certain plumbing codes.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5B, The Plumbing License Law (Article
1-5 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 Sec. 5B. ADOPTION OF PLUMBING CODES. (a) To protect the
1-8 health and safety of the citizens of this state, the Board shall
1-9 adopt the latest edition of [the Southern Standard Plumbing
1-10 Code,] the Uniform Plumbing Code, including its appendices and
1-11 installation standards[, and the National Standard Plumbing Code].
1-12 (b) In adopting plumbing standards for the proper design,
1-13 installation, and maintenance of a plumbing system, a municipality
1-14 or an owner of a public water system shall [may] adopt without
1-15 substantial revisions the latest edition of the Uniform Plumbing
1-16 Code. The Board may make the standards effective statewide or may
1-17 determine what constitutes a substantial revision [standards that
1-18 do not substantially vary with rules or laws of this state].
1-19 SECTION 2. 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,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.