1-1     By:  Allen (Senate Sponsor - West)                    H.B. No. 3233

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Health

 1-4     and Human Services; May 14, 1997, reported favorably by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 14, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the regulation and training of code enforcement

 1-9     officers.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 6(a), Chapter  796,  Acts  of  the  72nd

1-12     Legislature, Regular Session, 1991 (Article 4447bb, Vernon's Texas

1-13     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:

1-14           (a)  To receive a certificate of registration under this Act,

1-15     an applicant must:

1-16                 (1)  meet the requirements prescribed by this Act and

1-17     by board rule;

1-18                 (2)  have at least one year of experience in the field

1-19     of code enforcement;

1-20                 (3)  pass the examination conducted by the department

1-21     or the department's designee; and

1-22                 (4)  pay the initial application, registration, and

1-23     examination fees.

1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-29     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-30     passage, and it is so enacted.

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