By: Hughes S.B. No. 1582
 
  (White)
 
   
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to examinations for applicants for or holders of licenses
  or registrations to perform certain activities pertaining to
  compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 113.087(a), (j), and (k), Natural
  Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  The satisfactory completion of the requirements of this
  section is mandatory, and operations requiring an LP-gas license
  may not commence, continue, or resume unless examination and
  seminar requirements are fulfilled. The commission shall prepare,
  administer, and grade or review an examination required by this
  section or contract with a testing or proctoring service to
  prepare, administer, and grade or review the examination.
         (j)  If the examination is graded or reviewed by a testing or
  proctoring service:
               (1)  the commission shall notify the person of the
  results of the examination not later than the 14th day after the
  date the commission receives the results from the testing or
  proctoring service; and
               (2)  if notice of the examination results will be
  delayed for longer than 90 days after the examination date, the
  commission shall notify the person of the reason for the delay
  before the 90th day.
         (k)  The commission may require a testing or proctoring
  service to notify a person of the results of the person's
  examination.
         SECTION 2.  Section 113.088(b), Natural Resources Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (b)  Before seminar attendance or examination of any person,
  except as provided by [this subsection or] Subsection (c), the
  commission shall receive a nonrefundable fee for each examination
  or seminar registration. [If the examination is administered by a
  testing service, the testing service may administer the examination
  before the commission receives the fee. A testing service that
  administers an examination shall collect a nonrefundable fee for
  the examination before the examination is administered and shall
  forward the fee to the commission not later than the fifth business
  day after the date the testing service receives the fee.]
         SECTION 3.  Sections 116.034(e) and (f), Natural Resources
  Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (e)  If the examination is graded or reviewed by a testing or
  proctoring service:
               (1)  the commission shall notify the person of the
  results of the examination not later than the 14th day after the
  date the commission receives the results from the testing or
  proctoring service; and
               (2)  if notice of the examination results will be
  delayed for longer than 90 days after the examination date, the
  commission shall notify the person of the reason for the delay
  before the 90th day.
         (f)  The commission may require a testing or proctoring
  service to notify a person of the results of the person's
  examination.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.