By: Carona  S.B. No. 1729
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2007; March 21, 2007, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  April 25, 2007, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 25, 2007,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1729 By:  Harris
 
 
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 2005 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  Safety Code, is repealed.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.
 
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