By: Flores (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 1850

(In the Senate - Received from the House April 16, 2007; April 17, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations; May 3, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 3, 2007, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1850 By: West

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to an inspection performed by a plumbing inspector or qualified plumbing inspection business for a political subdivision.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 1301.255(e), Occupations Code, is amended to read as follows:

(e) Plumbing installed in compliance with a code adopted under Subsection (a), (b), or (d) must be inspected by a plumbing inspector. To perform the inspection, the political subdivision may contract with any plumbing inspector or qualified plumbing inspection business, as determined by the political subdivision, that is paid directly by the political subdivision.

SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.

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