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.