By Palmer H.B. No. 1997 76R7609 GJH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to installation, repair, or removal of certain vent hoods. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 6, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration 1-5 Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-6 Statutes), is amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) This Act does not apply to a person who installs, 1-8 repairs, or removes a vent hood of the type commonly used in 1-9 residential and commercial kitchens. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately and applies 1-11 only to the installation, repair, or removal of a vent hood that 1-12 occurs on or after the effective date of this Act. Installations, 1-13 repairs, and removals of vent hoods that occur before the effective 1-14 date of this Act are governed by the law in effect on the day the 1-15 installation, repair, or removal occurred, and that law is 1-16 continued in effect for that purpose. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.