2025 · Regular session · Senate bill
SB705
SB705 removes two automatic, nonvoting agency seats from the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors Advisory Board while keeping its nine appointed members, including one public member.
Official caption: Relating to the air conditioning and refrigeration contractors advisory board.
Official report lists Senate author(s): Zaffirini. 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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- SB705 removes two automatic, nonvoting agency seats from the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors Advisory Board while keeping its nine appointed members, including one public member.
- The removed seats were held automatically by the department’s executive director and the chief administrator of this licensing chapter.
What does it do?
SB705 removes two automatic, nonvoting agency seats from the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors Advisory Board while keeping its nine appointed members, including one public member. It also changes the staggered-term schedule so that three appointed members’ terms, rather than two, expire on February 1 of each odd-numbered year. Six-year terms remain. Signed June 20, 2025, the act took effect September 1, 2025. Entire enacted act; Official history.
The removed seats were held automatically by the department’s executive director and the chief administrator of this licensing chapter. They were already nonvoting; SB705 does not reduce the nine appointed seats or abolish the advisory board. Appointments remain made by the commission’s presiding officer with commission approval. Sections 1 and 3; Repealed automatic-seat provision.
What changed along the way?
The law deletes the reference to two nonvoting members, repeals Section 1302.203 that created those seats, and adjusts the appointment cycle to three members every two years. It does not amend the separate qualifications for appointed members or the rule for filling an unexpired term with someone representing the same interests. Sections 1–3; Appointed-member qualifications; Prior term and vacancy rules.
The introduced, Senate committee, engrossed, House committee and enrolled operative texts match. Both committees reported without amendments, and the amendment index lists none. There was no floor amendment changing the membership or term provisions in these records. Introduced text; Versions; Amendment index; Committee and passage history.
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Official bill versions
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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?
The direct effect is board administration: two agency officials no longer hold these statutory nonvoting seats, and the term schedule covers three of the nine appointed members at each two-year interval. The act preserves the public-member seat. It does not itself change contractor licensing standards, consumer fees or a customer’s repair bill; no price or service improvement is guaranteed. Membership and term changes.
The April 23 fiscal note anticipates no significant state or local-government fiscal impact and assumes state costs can be absorbed using existing resources. It provides no quantified savings from removing the nonvoting seats. 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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