BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2157 |
By: Gutierrez |
Licensing & Administrative Procedures |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties have raised concerns that a lawn irrigation system may be repaired and maintained by a person without an irrigator's license because the person can offer the service more cheaply than a licensed installer. The parties note that many municipal and county judges will not prosecute unlicensed irrigation repair and maintenance people or persons offering or providing various system-related services because state law only addresses irrigation system installation. C.S.H.B. 2157 seeks to address these concerns by expanding the conduct that constitutes the offense of installing an irrigation system without an irrigator's license to include various irrigation system-related services.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2157 amends the Occupations Code to expand the conduct that constitutes the Class C misdemeanor offense of installing an irrigation system without an irrigator's license to include selling, designing, maintaining, altering, repairing, servicing, and providing consultation services for an irrigation system, including the connection of an irrigation system to a water supply, without such a license. The bill makes it a Class C misdemeanor to advertise or offer to perform irrigation system services or to represent to another person that the person is an irrigator without such a license.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2157 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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