Bill Text: TX HB3043 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the licensing and regulation of a journeyman lineman.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2015-06-20 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB3043 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3043-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3043 |
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relating to the licensing and regulation of a journeyman lineman. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 1305.002(12), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(12) "Journeyman lineman" means an individual who | ||
engages in electrical work involving the installation, | ||
maintenance, and operation of equipment associated with the | ||
transmission and distribution of electricity from the | ||
electricity's original source to a substation and from a substation | ||
to the point where the electricity enters a building or structure on | ||
a customer's premises for further distribution. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 1305.101(a), Occupations Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The executive director or commission, as appropriate, | ||
shall: | ||
(1) by rule establish the financial responsibility | ||
requirements for electrical contractors; [ |
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(2) after publication of the National Electrical Code | ||
by the National Fire Protection Association every three years, | ||
adopt the revised National Electrical Code as the electrical code | ||
for the state; and | ||
(3) after the publication of the National Electrical | ||
Safety Code by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics | ||
Engineers every five years, adopt the revised National Electrical | ||
Safety Code for purposes of Section 1305.162(e). | ||
SECTION 3. Section 1305.162, Occupations Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: | ||
(e) In addition to the other requirements of this section, | ||
the department shall accept, develop, or contract for a journeyman | ||
lineman examination that tests an applicant's knowledge of: | ||
(1) materials and methods used in the installation, | ||
maintenance, and operation of equipment associated with the | ||
transmission and distribution of electricity from the | ||
electricity's original source to a substation and from a substation | ||
to the point where the electricity enters a building or structure on | ||
a customer's premises for further distribution; and | ||
(2) the standards prescribed by the National | ||
Electrical Safety Code as adopted by the commission. | ||
SECTION 4. Section 1305.162(e), Occupations Code, as added | ||
by this Act, applies only to an examination for a journeyman lineman | ||
license administered on or after June 1, 2016. An examination for a | ||
journeyman lineman license administered before that date is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the examination was | ||
administered, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. Not later than March 1, 2016, the Texas | ||
Commission of Licensing and Regulation shall adopt rules necessary | ||
to implement Sections 1305.101(a)(3) and 1305.162(e), Occupations | ||
Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3043 was passed by the House on May | ||
13, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 124, Nays 21, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3043 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
27, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 2. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |