Senate Committee Substitute

SCS/HCS/HB 1153 – This act increases the membership of the elevator safety board from 11 to 13 members. Currently 6 members constitute a quorum and 6 members are allowed to be from the same political party. This act stipulates that 7 members constitute a quorum and 7 members may be from the same political party. The act adds a state licensed professional engineer and a representative of an elevator company that installs, services and maintains elevators but who is not a manufacturer, to the membership of the board. A designee of the director of the Department of Public Safety may represent the director’s membership on the board.

CHRIS HOGERTY


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