By: Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 1484
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 8, 2009;
April 15, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Business and Commerce; April 23, 2009, reported favorably by the
following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 2009, sent to printer.)
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the use of certain professional titles by interior
designers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1053.002(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) a person who:
(A) does not use the title "interior designer"
and does not use the term "interior design" to describe a service
the person offers or performs; and
(B) is an interior designer licensed or
registered in another state or country who:
(i) does not open or maintain a business in
this state; and
(ii) complies with the requirements of
Subsection (b); [or]
(2) a person who is registered to practice
architecture in this state; or
(3) a person who does not use a business or
professional title that uses the phrase "registered interior
designer."
SECTION 2. Section 1053.151, Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 1053.151. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. A person other than
an interior designer may not[:
[(1)] represent that the person is a "registered [an
"] interior designer" by using that title or by using words that
imply that the person is a registered interior designer [; or
[(2) represent, by using the term "interior design," a
service the person offers or performs].
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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