Bill Text: TX HB1077 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the membership of the Electrical Safety and Licensing Advisory Board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB1077 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB1077-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Campbell) H.B. No. 1077
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 2015;
April 23, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; May 7, 2015, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 7, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the membership of the Electrical Safety and Licensing
Advisory Board.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1305.051(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) The advisory board consists of nine members appointed by
the presiding officer of the commission with the approval of the
commission as follows:
(1) three master electrician members;
(2) three journeyman electrician members; [and]
(3) one master sign electrician member; and
(4) two [three] public members.
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1305.051(a), Occupations Code, regarding the qualifications for a
member of the Electrical Safety and Licensing Advisory Board do not
affect the entitlement of a member serving on the board immediately
before the effective date of this Act to continue to serve and
function as a member of the board for the remainder of the member's
term. When board vacancies occur on or after the effective date of
this Act, the presiding officer of the Texas Commission of
Licensing and Regulation shall appoint new members to the board in a
manner that reflects the changes in law made by this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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