Bill Text: TX HB3049 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the issuance of occupational licenses to certain out-of-state applicants; authorizing a fee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-13 - Referred to Licensing & Administrative Procedures [HB3049 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3049-Introduced.html
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By: Flynn | H.B. No. 3049 |
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relating to the issuance of occupational licenses to certain | ||
out-of-state applicants; authorizing a fee. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Title 2, Occupations Code, is amended by adding | ||
Chapter 60 to read as follows: | ||
CHAPTER 60. LICENSING OUT-OF-STATE APPLICANTS | ||
Sec. 60.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: | ||
(1) "License" means a license, certificate, | ||
registration, permit, or other form of authorization required by | ||
law or a state agency rule that must be obtained by an individual to | ||
engage in a particular occupation in this state. | ||
(2) "State agency" means a department, board, bureau, | ||
commission, committee, division, office, council, or agency of this | ||
state. | ||
Sec. 60.002. LICENSING OF OUT-OF-STATE APPLICANTS. | ||
Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency that issues a license | ||
shall waive all education, training, experience, and examination | ||
requirements for obtaining a license for a license applicant after: | ||
(1) reviewing the applicant's credentials and | ||
determining that: | ||
(A) the applicant holds a license issued by | ||
another state for an occupation that is substantially equivalent to | ||
the occupation for which the state agency issues the license; | ||
(B) the applicant has held the license described | ||
by Paragraph (A) for at least one year; | ||
(C) the applicant has not been disciplined by a | ||
licensing authority of the other state for violating a law or rule | ||
administered by the licensing authority; | ||
(D) the applicant does not have a complaint or | ||
investigation pending before a licensing authority of the other | ||
state; | ||
(E) the applicant has not been convicted of and | ||
does not have pending a criminal case for an offense that | ||
disqualifies the applicant from holding a license issued by the | ||
state agency under the laws of this state; and | ||
(F) the license granted to the applicant by the | ||
other state has not been suspended, revoked, or surrendered for any | ||
reason; and | ||
(2) the applicant has paid any required fee. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an application for a license submitted to a state agency on or | ||
after the effective date of this Act. An application submitted to a | ||
state agency before the effective date of this Act is governed by | ||
the law in effect on the date the application was submitted, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |