By Davis of Harris H.B. No. 2095
76R4741 GJH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the adoption of standards for the practice of air
1-3 conditioning and refrigeration contracting.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 3(a), Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
1-6 Contractor License Law (Article 8861, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-7 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) The commissioner shall adopt rules for the practice of
1-9 air conditioning and refrigeration contracting consistent with this
1-10 Act. The standards prescribed by rule must be at least as strict
1-11 as the standards set forth in the Uniform Mechanical Code published
1-12 [jointly] by the [International Conference of Building Officials
1-13 and the] International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical
1-14 Officials and [or] the International Mechanical Code published by
1-15 the International Code Council [Standard Mechanical Code published
1-16 by the Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., as
1-17 those codes exist at the time the rules are adopted]. In adopting
1-18 rules to protect the public health, the commissioner shall review
1-19 annually the Uniform Mechanical Code, the International Mechanical
1-20 Code, and other codes relating to the practice of air conditioning
1-21 and refrigeration contracting and shall adopt rules as necessary
1-22 based on those codes and revisions to those codes. The commissioner
1-23 shall enforce this Act and may adopt rules relating to enforcement
1-24 requirements.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.