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.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1997 was passed by the House on May
         3, 1999, by a non-record vote; that the House refused to concur in
         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1997 on May 27, 1999, and requested
         the appointment of a conference committee to consider the
         differences between the two houses; and that the House adopted the
         conference committee report on H.B. No. 1997 on May 30, 1999, by
         the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1997 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
         committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
         that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
         1997 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor