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
By: Guillen (Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | H.B. No. 2546 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 2019; | ||
April 29, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Business & Commerce; May 20, 2019, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
Nays 0; May 20, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2546 | By: Nichols |
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relating to the energy efficiency performance standards for | ||
construction of certain 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. OPTION TO CONSTRUCT CERTAIN INDUSTRIALIZED | ||
HOUSING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CERTAIN ENERGY EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE | ||
STANDARDS. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this | ||
subchapter related to energy efficiency performance standards, a | ||
manufacturer or builder of industrialized housing may construct | ||
single-family industrialized housing in accordance with the energy | ||
efficiency performance standards outlined in: | ||
(1) the energy code adopted by the council; or | ||
(2) the energy code in this state for single-family | ||
residential construction with any local amendments or alternative | ||
compliance paths described by Section 388.003, Health and Safety | ||
Code, that are: | ||
(A) requested by a municipality, county, or group | ||
of counties located in the climate zone in which the single-family | ||
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 Section 388.003(a), | ||
Health and Safety Code. | ||
(b) A manufacturer or builder of industrialized housing | ||
shall maintain and, on request, make available to the department, | ||
to a design review agency, or to another entity authorized to | ||
evaluate industrialized housing under this chapter all | ||
documentation necessary to evaluate single-family industrialized | ||
housing constructed by the manufacturer or builder in accordance | ||
with the energy efficiency performance standards described by | ||
Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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