Bill Text: TX SB964 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to certain plumbing, air conditioning, and electrical services performed as a volunteer during a disaster.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-01 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB964 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB964-Introduced.html
86R9334 JCG-D | ||
By: Alvarado | S.B. No. 964 |
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relating to certain plumbing, air conditioning, and electrical | ||
services performed as a volunteer during a disaster. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 8, Occupations Code, is amended by adding | ||
Chapter 1306 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 1306. VOLUNTEER SERVICES DURING DISASTER | ||
Sec. 1306.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "License holder" means a person who holds a | ||
license, endorsement, registration, or other authorization | ||
required to engage in an occupation or activity regulated under | ||
Chapter 1301, 1302, or 1305. | ||
(2) "Technical services" means services for which a | ||
license holder is required to hold a license, endorsement, | ||
registration, or other authorization issued under Chapter 1301, | ||
1302, or 1305 to provide the services. | ||
Sec. 1306.002. VOLUNTEER SERVICES DURING DISASTER. (a) A | ||
license holder employed by the United States government or licensed | ||
in another state may perform technical services as a volunteer in | ||
this state without holding a license issued in this state during a | ||
disaster: | ||
(1) subject to the state emergency management plan, | ||
adopted under Section 418.042, Government Code; or | ||
(2) declared by the governor or the president of the | ||
United States. | ||
(b) A supervision requirement under Chapter 1301, 1302, or | ||
1305 does not apply to technical services performed by a license | ||
holder as a volunteer during circumstances described by Subsection | ||
(a). | ||
(c) This section does not apply to technical services | ||
performed by a license holder for compensation or other | ||
remuneration. | ||
(d) The Public Safety Commission shall adopt any rules | ||
necessary to implement this section. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, the Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules as | ||
necessary to implement Chapter 1306, Occupations Code, as added by | ||
this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |