Morgyn:
Little Nemo , if I read the story correctly, the plumbing board and codes go away THIS September, but the Texas Legislature doesn’t come back into session until 2022. So you’ve got a couple years, there.
Wait, they’re taking a whole year off?
Well, they aren’t taking off, rather, they only convene every two years.
Most Texans consider this a feature, not a bug.
flurb:
Apparently, Gov Abbott thinks he has some sort of superpower to keep the State Board of Plumbing Examiners alive despite the fact that the sunset process in Texas is crystal clear about the consequences of failing to reauthorize an agency. It’s also unclear what good it would do to extend the agency if the plumbing code is eliminated anyway.
The simply solution is for Abbott to call a special session of the Legislature. He gets to decide what’s on the agenda, so he could limit it to the plumbing issue. But he doesn’t want to do that because he’ll come under pressure from activists to add all sorts of things to the agenda like abortion, voter fraud, etc.
It’s not a superpower. It was built into the legislative process. It’s also down the road so the legislators can revise the code as they see fit which is the purpose of sunset laws.
So, you can all go back to worrying about global bee warming or whatever the trending soundbite catastrophe is this week.