Texas Senate Bill SB914 was amended today to include the requirement for mandatory E/O. I recognize that there are those of you who are proponents of carrying E/O. I do not wish to debate that here. It's been beaten to death.
However, I would like to invite you, all of you, to go back through the TREC Advisor files for as far back as they go and count the total number of sanctions against Inspectors.
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This amendment is not consumer driven. It is driven by the industry most certain to profit from it and it is driven by a State government so dishonest that it has taken UNUSED monies from the recovery fund and added it to the general budget. There is a surplus because there have not been enough claims to use the monies already collected from Inspectors.
The following is an exact reprinting. I have inserted no diacritical markings.
""Amend CSSB 914 (House committee printing) by inserting the
following appropriately numbered SECTIONS and renumbering
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 1102.114, Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 1102.114. ISSUANCE OF LICENSE. The commission shall
issue the appropriate license to an applicant who:
(1) meets the required qualifications; [and]
(2) pays the fee required by Section 1102.352(a)
; and
(3) offers proof that the applicant carries liability
insurance with a minimum limit of $100,000 per occurrence to
protect the public against a violation of Subchapter G.
SECTION ____. Section 1102.203(a), Occupations Code, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) A person may renew an unexpired license by paying the
required renewal fee to the commission before the expiration date
of the license
and providing proof of liability insurance as
required by Section 1102.114(3).""