2007S0703-1 03/08/07
 
  By: Carona S.B. No. 1729
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the inspection, installation, maintenance, and repair
of elevators, escalators, chairlifts, people movers, moving
sidewalks, platform lifts, and related equipment.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Subdivision (6), Section 754.011, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
             (6)  "ASME Code A17.1" means the 2007 American Society
of Mechanical Engineers Safety Code for Elevators and Escalators
A17.1.
       SECTION 2.  Subdivision (11), Section 754.011, Health and
Safety Code, is repealed.
       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.