2025 bills / H.B. 442
H.B. 442 Construction Trades Licensing Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill sets requirements for a general engineering contractor license that covers electrical utility work, and lets applicants with enough experience qualify for that license. It also directs the licensing division to write rules defining sufficient experience for out-of-state journeyman lineman license holders and spells out requirements for an HVAC contractor license.
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Official description
- provides requirements for a general engineering contractor license for electrical utilities
- allows an applicant with sufficient experience to obtain a general engineering contractor license
- grants rulemaking authority to the division to establish by rule sufficient experience for an applicant with a journeyman lineman license from another jurisdiction
- provides the requirements for an HVAC contractor license
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 442 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 442 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- yes, undefined norefuse to concur with Senate amendment · Mar 7, 2025
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentConference Committee - Final Passage · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentConference Committee - Final Passage · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how