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. | ||
