Bill Text: TX HB848 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to qualifications for a backflow prevention assembly tester license.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-02 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB848 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB848-Introduced.html
| 84R4692 SCL-D | ||
| By: Schaefer | H.B. No. 848 | |
|
|
||
|
|
||
| relating to qualifications for a backflow prevention assembly | ||
| tester license. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 37.004, Water Code, is amended to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| Sec. 37.004. QUALIFICATIONS. (a) The commission shall | ||
| establish the qualifications required by this section and, except | ||
| as limited by Subsection (b), may establish additional | ||
| qualifications for each license and registration issued under this | ||
| chapter. | ||
| (b) The commission shall require an applicant for a backflow | ||
| prevention assembly tester license to pass an examination and | ||
| complete an approved 40-hour backflow prevention assembly testing | ||
| training course. The commission may not require work experience for | ||
| issuance of a backflow prevention assembly tester license. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Commission on Environmental | ||
| Quality shall adopt the rules necessary to implement Section | ||
| 37.004, Water Code, as amended by this Act, not later than December | ||
| 1, 2015. | ||
| (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to an | ||
| application for a backflow prevention assembly tester license | ||
| submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on or | ||
| after January 1, 2016. An application submitted before that date is | ||
| governed by the law in effect on the date the application was | ||
| submitted, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
