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Amend SB 283 on third reading as follows:                                    
	(1) In ARTICLE 1 of the bill, add the following appropriately 
numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS of ARTICLE 1 
appropriately:
	SECTION 1._____. Existing Subchapter E, Chapter 1051, 
Occupations Code, is amended by adding Section 1051.213 to read as 
follows:
	Sec. 1051.213. RECOMMENDATION OF REHABILITATION CODES AND 
PROVISIONS. The board may recommend to municipalities a 
rehabilitation code and prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation 
for adoption under Section 214.215, Local Government Code.  In 
making its recommendations, the board may consider rehabilitation 
codes published by developers of national model codes or the 
American National Standards Institute and prescriptive provisions 
for rehabilitation included in a code published by developers of 
national model codes or the American National Standards Institute.
	(2) Add the following appropriately numbered ARTICLE and 
renumber the subsequent ARTICLES of the bill accordingly:
	ARTICLE _____. REHABILITATION CODES
	SECTION _____.01. The heading to Subchapter G, Chapter 214, 
Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
	SUBCHAPTER G. BUILDING AND REHABILITATION CODES
	SECTION _____.02. Subchapter G, Chapter 214, Local 
Government Code, is amended by adding Section 214.215 to read as 
follows:
	Sec. 214.215. ADOPTION OF REHABILITATION CODES OR 
PROVISIONS. (a) In this section, "rehabilitation" means the 
alteration, remodeling, enlargement, or repair of an existing 
structure.
	(b) A municipality that adopts a building code, other than 
the International Residential Code adopted under Section 214.212, 
shall adopt one of the following:
		(1) prescriptive provisions for rehabilitation as part 
of the municipality's building code; or
		(2) the rehabilitation code that accompanies the 
building code adopted by the municipality.
	(c) The rehabilitation code or prescriptive provisions do not 
apply to the rehabilitation of a structure to which the 
International Residential Code applies or to the construction of a 
new structure.
	(d) A municipality may:                                                 
		(1) adopt the rehabilitation code or prescriptive 
provisions for rehabilitation recommended by the Texas Board of 
Architectural Examiners; or
		(2) amend its rehabilitation code or prescriptive 
provisions for rehabilitation.
	(e) A municipality shall enforce the prescriptive provisions 
for rehabilitation or the rehabilitation code in a manner 
consistent with the enforcement of the municipality's building 
code.
	SECTION _____.03. A municipality shall adopt prescriptive 
provisions for rehabilitation or a rehabilitation code, as required 
by Section 214.215, Local Government Code, as added by this Act, on 
or before January 1, 2004.