By Allen                                              H.B. No. 3233

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the regulation and training of code enforcement

 1-3     officers.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 6(a), Chapter  796,  Acts  of  the  72nd

 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 (Article 4447bb, Vernon's Texas

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

 1-8           (a)  To receive a certificate of registration under this Act,

 1-9     an applicant must:

1-10                 (1)  meet the requirements prescribed by this Act and

1-11     by board rule;

1-12                 (2)  have at least one year of experience in the field

1-13     of code enforcement;

1-14                 (3)  pass the examination conducted by the department

1-15     or the department's designee; and

1-16                 (4)  pay the initial application, registration, and

1-17     examination fees.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-23     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-24     passage, and it is so enacted.