1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1412 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Special Committee on Border Affairs; 1-4 April 9, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 9, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1412 By: Zaffirini 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to allowing the provision of plumbing services without a 1-11 plumbing license for certain projects in certain geographic areas. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 3, The Plumbing License Law (Article 1-14 6243-101, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as 1-15 follows: 1-16 Sec. 3. ACTS PERMITTED WITHOUT A LICENSE. The following 1-17 acts, work and conduct shall be expressly permitted without 1-18 license: 1-19 (a) Plumbing work done by a property owner in a 1-20 building owned or occupied by him as his homestead; 1-21 (b) Plumbing work done outside the municipal limits of 1-22 any organized city, town or village in this state, or within any 1-23 such city, town or village of less than five thousand (5,000) 1-24 inhabitants, unless required by ordinance in such city, town or 1-25 village of less than five thousand (5,000) inhabitants; 1-26 (c) Plumbing work done by anyone who is regularly 1-27 employed as or acting as a maintenance man or maintenance engineer, 1-28 incidental to and in connection with the business in which he is 1-29 employed or engaged, and who does not engage in the occupation of a 1-30 plumber for the general public; construction, installation and 1-31 maintenance work done upon the premises or equipment of a railroad 1-32 by an employee thereof who does not engage in the occupation of a 1-33 plumber for the general public; and plumbing work done by persons 1-34 engaged by any public service company in the laying, maintenance 1-35 and operation of its service mains or lines to the point of 1-36 measurement and the installation, alteration, adjustment, repair, 1-37 removal and renovation of all types of appurtenances, equipment and 1-38 appliances, including doing all that is necessary to render the 1-39 appliances useable or serviceable; appliance installation and 1-40 service work done by anyone who is an appliance dealer or is 1-41 employed by an appliance dealer, and acting as an appliance 1-42 installation man or appliance service man in connecting appliances 1-43 to existing piping installations; water treatment installations, 1-44 exchanges, services, or repairs. Provided, however, that all work 1-45 and service herein named or referred to shall be subject to 1-46 inspection and approval in accordance with the terms of all local 1-47 valid city or municipal ordinances; 1-48 (d) Plumbing work done by a licensed irrigator or 1-49 licensed installer when working and licensed under Chapter 197, 1-50 Acts of the 66th Legislature, Regular Session, 1979 (Article 8751, 1-51 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes). A person holding a valid license 1-52 from the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall not be 1-53 required to be licensed by any other board or agency when 1-54 installing or working on a lawn irrigation system; 1-55 (e) Plumbing work done by an LP Gas installer when 1-56 working and licensed under Chapter 113, Natural Resources Code, as 1-57 amended; 1-58 (f) Plumbing work, limited to the provision of a 1-59 residential potable water supply or residential sanitary sewer 1-60 connections for a project in a geographic area that is located in a 1-61 county any part of which is within 50 miles of an international 1-62 border, that is done by an organization that: 1-63 (1) is certified by the Texas Natural Resource 1-64 Conservation Commission to provide "self-help" project assistance; 2-1 and 2-2 (2) provides the board with the following 2-3 information before the 30th day before the date the project begins: 2-4 (A) a specific project location; 2-5 (B) the intended duration of the project; 2-6 and 2-7 (C) other information the board may 2-8 require. 2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-15 * * * * *