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Amend CSSB 1652, in ARTICLE 4 of that bill, by adding the 
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering the 
SECTIONS in that ARTICLE appropriately:
	SECTION _____. Section 1954.254, Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	Sec. 1954.254. CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR CERTAIN LICENSE 
HOLDERS. A person licensed under this chapter to perform asbestos 
inspections or surveys, write management plans, or design abatement 
specifications for an asbestos abatement project may also engage in 
the removal of asbestos from the building or facility at which an 
asbestos abatement project takes place only if the person is 
retained to remove the asbestos by a municipality, university, 
school district, or other governmental entity.
	SECTION _____. Section 1954.255(b), Occupations Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
	(b) An independent third-party monitor may not be employed by 
the asbestos abatement contractor to analyze an area sample 
collected during the abatement project, but the monitor may collect 
such a sample if:
		(1) the monitor is employed by a university, school 
district, or other governmental entity; and
		(2) the analysis of the sample is performed by an 
analyst not employed by the contractor.