By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 705
         (In the Senate - Filed January 3, 2025; February 7, 2025,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
  May 5, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 11,
  Nays 0; May 5, 2025, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the air conditioning and refrigeration contractors
  advisory board.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 1302.201, Occupations Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         Sec. 1302.201.  ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIP. The air
  conditioning and refrigeration contractors advisory board consists
  of nine members appointed by the presiding officer of the
  commission[,] with the commission's approval[, and two ex officio
  nonvoting members]. One member of the advisory board must be a
  public member.
         SECTION 2.  Section 1302.205(a), Occupations Code, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  Appointed advisory board members serve staggered
  six-year terms.  The terms of three [two] appointed members expire
  on February 1 of each odd-numbered year.
         SECTION 3.  Section 1302.203, Occupations Code, is repealed.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
 
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