By: Kuempel (Senate Sponsor - Eltife) H.B. No. 2763
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 2009;
April 15, 2009, read first time and referred to Committee on
Education; May 11, 2009, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
May 11, 2009, sent to printer.)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2763 By: Van de Putte
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the regulation of industrialized housing and buildings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1202.002(c), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(c) Industrialized housing does not include:
(1) a residential structure that exceeds three stories
or 49 feet in height [as measured from the finished grade elevation
at the building entrance to the peak of the roof];
(2) housing constructed of a sectional or panelized
system that does not use a modular component; or
(3) a ready-built home constructed in a manner in
which the entire living area is contained in a single unit or
section at a temporary location for the purpose of selling and
moving the home to another location.
SECTION 2. Section 1202.003(d), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(d) An industrialized building includes a permanent
commercial structure and a commercial structure designed to be
transported from one commercial site to another commercial site but
does not include:
(1) a commercial structure that exceeds three stories
or 49 feet in height [as measured from the finished grade elevation
at the building entrance to the peak of the roof]; or
(2) a commercial building or structure that is:
(A) installed in a manner other than on a
permanent foundation; and
(B) either:
(i) not open to the public; or
(ii) less than 1,500 square feet in total
area and used other than as a school or a place of religious
worship.
SECTION 3. Subchapter A, Chapter 1202, Occupations Code, is
amended by adding Section 1202.004 to read as follows:
Sec. 1202.004. RELOCATABLE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES. (a) In
this section, "relocatable educational facility" means a portable,
modular building capable of being relocated, regardless of whether
the facility is built at the installation site, that is used
primarily as an educational facility for teaching the curriculum
required under Section 28.002, Education Code.
(b) A relocatable educational facility that is purchased or
leased on or after January 1, 2010, must comply with all provisions
applicable to industrialized buildings under this chapter.
SECTION 4. Section 1202.1535(b), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(b) The owner of an industrialized building designed to be
transported from one commercial site to another that bears an
approved decal or insignia indicating the building complies with
the mandatory building codes and that is modified or altered after
the date the council adopts a new mandatory building code or the
council approves a building code amendment must ensure that the
modified or altered building complies with the requirements and
standards of the new building code or amendment to the extent
required by the most recent edition of the International Existing
Building Code adopted by the council [:
[(1) the entire building complies with the mandatory
building code or building code amendment if the cost of the
modification or alteration to the building is at least 50 percent of
the value of the modules or modular components used in the
construction of the building; or
[(2) the modified or altered portion of the building
complies with the mandatory building code or building code
amendment if the cost of the modification or alteration is less than
50 percent of the value of the modules or modular components].
SECTION 5. Section 46.008(b), Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 6. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
section, this Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
(b) Section 5 of this Act takes effect December 31, 2009.
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