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Amend CSHB 1365 (Senate committee printing) by adding the 
following SECTIONS to the bill, appropriately numbered, and 
renumbering subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
	SECTION ___.  Section 388.003, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
	(i)  A building certified by a national, state, or local 
accredited energy efficiency program shall be considered in 
compliance.
	SECTION ___.  Section 388.004, Health and Safety Code, is 
amended  to read as follows:
	Sec. 388.004.  ENFORCEMENT OF ENERGY STANDARDS OUTSIDE OF 
MUNICIPALITY.  (a) For construction outside of the local 
jurisdiction of a municipality:
		(1)  a building certified by a national, state, or 
local accredited energy efficiency program shall be considered in 
compliance;
		(2)  a building with inspections from private 
code-certified inspectors using the energy efficiency chapter of 
the International Residential Code or International Energy 
Conservation Code shall be considered in compliance;  and
		(3)  a builder who does not have access to either of the 
above methods for a building shall certify compliance using a form 
provided by the laboratory, enumerating the code-compliance 
features of the building.
	(b)  A builder shall retain until the third anniversary of 
the date on which compliance is achieved the original copy of any 
documentation that establishes compliance under this section.  The 
builder on receipt of any compliance documentation shall provide a 
copy to the owner of the building.
	(c)  A single-family residence built in the unincorporated 
area of a county the construction of which was completed on or after 
September 1, 2001, but not later than August 31, 2002, shall be 
considered in compliance.