Bill Text: TX HB2294 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from air conditioning and refrigeration contracting regulation for installation of a thermostat.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2294 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2294-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to an exemption from air conditioning and refrigeration contracting regulation for installation of a thermostat.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB2294 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB2294-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kuempel, Lucio III (Senate Sponsor - Carona) | H.B. No. 2294 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013; | ||
May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Business | ||
and Commerce; May 16, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable | ||
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 1, one | ||
present not voting; May 16, 2013, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2294 | By: Carona |
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relating to an exemption from air conditioning and refrigeration | ||
contracting regulation for installation of a thermostat. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1302.002(2), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(2) "Air conditioning and refrigeration contracting" | ||
means performing or offering to perform the design, installation, | ||
construction, repair, maintenance, service, or modification of | ||
equipment or a product in an environmental air conditioning system, | ||
a commercial refrigeration system, or a process cooling or heating | ||
system. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the | ||
term "air conditioning and refrigeration contracting" does not | ||
include the installation, repair, replacement, or modification of a | ||
thermostat or other temperature control interface by a person | ||
licensed or registered under Chapter 1702 of this code. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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