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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) says the State Board of Plumbing Examiners will be extended two years, preventing the state agency that regulates and manages the licensing of plumbers from shutting down ...

THE TEXAS TRIBUNE – The state agency that regulates Texas plumbers is set to begin a “wind down” period and is scheduled to be abolished in 2020 after state lawmakers failed to pass legislation Sunday ...

WACO, TX — A ribbon-cutting held Tuesday, Jan. 25, at Texas State Technical College's Waco campus marked the opening of a high-tech testing facility for licensing by the Texas State Board of Plumbing ...

Plumbers in Texas will no longer be subject to state regulations after lawmakers this week flushed the state plumbing code and the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, a state agency that employed ...

COPPERAS COVE, Texas (KWTX) - The question of who will license the state’s nearly 60,000 plumbers — and make sure they are fully trained — remains an open one headed into the legislative session. Last ...

Jimmie Dale gathered his men last Wednesday to deliver the news. Dale, a fourth-generation plumber and president of Baker Brothers Plumbing, Air Conditioning and Electrical, said he was met with shock ...

Heading off the prospect of everyone in Texas being able to call themselves plumbers, Gov. Greg Abbott has extended the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners and its licensing law until 2021 via an ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: On Tuesday June 4, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that the plumbing board's life can be extended for two years without going into a special session. He didn't elaborate on specifics.

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Plumbers are calling Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and asking him to order lawmakers back to Austin for a special legislative session to remedy the situation. Plumbers in Texas will no longer be subject to ...