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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB3848

HB3848 clarifies electronic filing authority and when elevator-related inspection reports and fees count as filed.

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Official caption: Relating to the electronic submission of inspection reports and filing fees for the inspection of elevators, escalators, and related equipment.

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Official report lists House author(s): Hernandez. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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HB3848 clarifies electronic filing authority and when elevator-related inspection reports and fees count as filed.
The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation may now, by rule, require or permit reports, other documents and fees to be filed in the manner prescribed by the department, including electronically.
For the specified timeliness requirements, filing is measured by the earliest applicable date of personal delivery, properly addressed U.S. mail postmark, properly addressed commercial-courier deposit, or—newly added—electronic submission in the department-prescribed manner.
The existing owner’s duty to file the inspection report and applicable fees within 30 calendar days after inspection remains.

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What does it do?

HB3848 clarifies electronic filing authority and when elevator-related inspection reports and fees count as filed. It does not reduce the annual inspection requirement to once every five years. It took effect September 1, 2025. Final law.

The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation may now, by rule, require or permit reports, other documents and fees to be filed in the manner prescribed by the department, including electronically. The old provision already allowed required electronic filing; the act adds “or permit.” Filing authority.

For the specified timeliness requirements, filing is measured by the earliest applicable date of personal delivery, properly addressed U.S. mail postmark, properly addressed commercial-courier deposit, or—newly added—electronic submission in the department-prescribed manner. An arbitrary email is not necessarily a qualifying electronic filing. Timeliness rule.

The existing owner’s duty to file the inspection report and applicable fees within 30 calendar days after inspection remains. The act also references the existing rule requiring the registered inspector to issue the report to the owner within five calendar days. It does not waive fees, extend those deadlines, replace a physical inspection with an online form or certify that equipment is safe. The chapter covers elevators, escalators and specified related equipment. Inspection reports.

What changed along the way?

The introduced and House-report versions contained the electronic-filing changes. The sole indexed floor amendment, Phelan’s adopted third-reading amendment, added a rule requiring inspection and certification only once every five years for equipment in buildings of four stories or less. That provision appears in the House-engrossed bill.

The Senate committee substitute removed that five-year provision. The Senate-report text, adopted substitute packet and final law return to the electronic-filing provisions. The May 28 Senate journal, printed page 3157 records passage of the substitute. There was no additional Senate floor amendment. Amendment index and all versions.

The House initially passed it 116–16 with two present but not voting; the Senate passed it 31–0; and the House concurred 101–30 with two present but not voting. The governor signed it June 20, 2025. Official history.

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Building owners, inspectors and the department may benefit from clearer electronic-submission options and filing dates. Actual convenience depends on the department’s prescribed process. The final act does not produce the inspection-fee or staffing reductions associated with the abandoned five-year proposal.

The final-stage fiscal note anticipates no significant state fiscal impact, assumes state costs can be absorbed within existing resources, and anticipates no local fiscal impact. The earlier engrossed-version estimate of a $487,770 two-year net General Revenue cost, with fee losses and staffing savings, analyzed the five-year inspection proposal. It is not the fiscal estimate for the enacted law.

Review boundary: This explains filing-law changes, not current portal availability, an individual filing’s acceptance or an equipment safety determination.

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