84R10559 SRS-F
 
  By: Thompson of Harris H.B. No. 3043
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the licensing and regulation of a journeyman lineman.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1305.002(12), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
               (12)  "Journeyman lineman" means an individual who
  engages in electrical work involving the installation, 
  maintenance, and operation of equipment associated with the
  transmission and distribution of electricity from the
  electricity's original source to a substation and from a substation
  for further distribution.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1305.1605(a), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  An applicant for a license as a journeyman lineman must:
               (1)  have at least:
                     (A)  7,000 hours of training in an apprenticeship
  program approved by the United States Department of Labor; or
                     (B)  3-1/2 years of experience as a journeyman
  lineman for an electric utility, electric cooperative, municipally
  owned utility, or electrical contractor in this state; and
               (2)  pass a journeyman lineman examination
  administered under this chapter based primarily on information
  contained in The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook.
         SECTION 3.  Section 1305.1605(a), Occupations Code, as
  amended by this Act, applies only to an examination for a journeyman
  lineman license administered on or after the effective date of this
  Act. An examination for a journeyman lineman license administered
  before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the
  examination was administered, and the former law is continued in
  effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.