85R11952 KKR-D
By: Paul H.B. No. 3111
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to medical gas and vacuum piping systems testing in
certain health facilities and voluntary tester registry.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 222, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 222.0055 to read as follows:
Sec. 222.0055. TESTING OF MEDICAL GAS AND VACUUM PIPING
SYSTEM. (a) In this section, "health facility" has the meaning
assigned by Section 221.003.
(b) The executive commissioner and the Texas State Board of
Plumbing Examiners shall jointly adopt rules consistent with
plumbing industry standards related to verification of the
integrity and content of a medical gas and vacuum piping system
installed in a health facility.
SECTION 2. Section 1301.058, Occupations Code, is amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 1301.058. TESTING OF MEDICAL GAS AND VACUUM PIPING;
RULES; REGISTRY. (a) A person is not required to be licensed under
this chapter to verify medical gas and vacuum piping integrity and
content.
(b) The board and the executive commissioner of the Health
and Human Services Commission shall jointly adopt rules consistent
with plumbing industry standards related to verification of the
integrity and content of a medical gas and vacuum piping system
installed in a health facility, as required under Section 222.0055,
Health and Safety Code.
(c) The board by rule shall create and maintain a voluntary
registry of persons who are qualified to verify medical gas and
vacuum piping integrity and content.
SECTION 3. (a) Not later than January 1, 2018, the executive
commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission and the
Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners shall jointly adopt rules
required under Section 222.0055, Health and Safety Code, as added
by this Act. Rules adopted by the commission that are in effect on
the effective date of this Act continue in effect until superseded
by joint rules adopted as required by this Act.
(b) Not later than January 1, 2018, the Texas State Board of
Plumbing Examiners shall create the voluntary registry required
under Section 1301.058, Occupations Code, as amended by this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.