Bill Text: TX HB2546 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the energy efficiency performance standards for construction of certain industrialized housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2546 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2546-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the energy efficiency performance standards for construction of certain industrialized housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB2546 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2546-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 2546 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2546: | |||
| By: Hernandez | C.S.H.B. No. 2546 | ||
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| relating to the energy efficiency performance standards for | ||
| construction of industrialized housing. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 1202, Occupations Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 1202.1536 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 1202.1536. Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
| subchapter, a manufacturer or builder of industrialized housing may | ||
| construct industrialized housing in accordance with the energy | ||
| efficiency performance standards outlined in: | ||
| (1) the energy code described by Section 388.003(a), | ||
| Health and Safety Code; or | ||
| (2) a local amendment to the energy code described by | ||
| Section 388.003(a), Health and Safety Code, that is: | ||
| (A) applicable to the municipality or county in | ||
| which the industrialized housing will be located; and | ||
| (B) determined by the laboratory, as defined by | ||
| Section 388.002, Health and Safety Code, to be equally or more | ||
| stringent than the energy code described by Subdivision (1). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
