2025 · Regular session · House bill
HB2286
HB2286 extends an examination deadline for interior designers who hold a registration certificate issued without examination under Occupations Code Chapter 1053.
Official caption: Relating to the renewal of a certificate of registration by certain interior designers.
Official report lists House author(s): Craddick. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.
Bill explanation published · Version and amendment review scope is stated below · Individual amendment records may not be separately annotated.
Bill highlights
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- HB2286 extends an examination deadline for interior designers who hold a registration certificate issued without examination under Occupations Code Chapter 1053.
- The law also moves the expiration of this special statutory subsection from January 1, 2029 to January 1, 2039.
What does it do?
HB2286 extends an examination deadline for interior designers who hold a registration certificate issued without examination under Occupations Code Chapter 1053. Previously, they could not renew on or after September 1, 2027 unless they had passed the specified exam before that date. The law moves both dates to September 1, 2037. The exam remains the registration examination adopted by the board under Section 1053.154 and in effect on January 1, 2014. This is a ten-year delay, not a permanent exam exemption. Final law, Section 1.
The law also moves the expiration of this special statutory subsection from January 1, 2029 to January 1, 2039. That date is the subsection’s expiration, not an extension of each person’s certificate until 2039. Ordinary renewal eligibility, certificate expiration and renewal-fee rules are not rewritten. New applicants are not given a new examination waiver. The act took effect September 1, 2025. Final law, Sections 1–2; renewal rules, Section 1051.351; examination rule, Section 1053.154; official history.
What changed along the way?
The introduced bill, House committee printing, engrossed bill, Senate committee printing and enrolled law have the same substantive language. Only printing marks and certification material differ. The official amendment index lists no amendments; both committees reported the bill without amendments. The three date substitutions are the entire substantive change: the renewal cutoff and exam deadline move from 2027 to 2037, and the subsection’s expiration moves from 2029 to 2039. Text versions; introduced text; amendment index; final law.
For the full amendment record, open the official amendment index.
Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
Affected designers gain more time to meet the exam requirement while continuing to renew if otherwise eligible. The law does not waive ordinary renewal fees, promise exam-cost savings or eliminate other registration obligations. Designers who already met the exam requirement do not receive a new deadline they must meet. Final law; renewal statute.
The Legislative Budget Board’s May 7, 2025 engrossed fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local-government fiscal implication. It explains that the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners pays its own operating costs, cannot cause costs to the General Revenue Fund and is outside the legislative budgeting process. The March 20 introduced note reaches the same conclusions. Neither note supplies a dollar estimate of savings to individual designers. Engrossed fiscal note; introduced fiscal note.
Official sources
- Bill history and latest recorded action
- Bill versions, analyses and fiscal notes
- Action history and votes
- Amendment index
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