Bill Text: TX HB2546 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2546 |
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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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2546 was passed by the House on April | ||
25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 121, Nays 15, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 2546 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 123, Nays 18, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2546 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays | ||
1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |