By: Jones (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 3628

(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2009; May 14, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; May 23, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 23, 2009, sent to printer.)

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3628 By: Jackson

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the date by which the executive director of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation must require compliance with certain elevator safety standards.

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

SECTION 1. Section 754.014(f), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:

(f) The executive director shall grant a delay until September 1, 2012 [2010], for compliance with the requirements for door restrictors or firefighter's service in the ASME Code A17.3 if those requirements were not included in the ASME Code A17.1 that was in effect on the date of installation and the equipment was not subsequently installed. This subsection expires October 1, 2012.

SECTION 2. 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, 2009.

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