The Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation will meet at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to seat a new commissioner, consider adopting the 2026 National Electrical Code and review a wide-ranging agenda that also reflects the state’s transfer of lottery oversight to the agency.
The commission will meet in Room 4.300 of the George H.W. Bush State Office Building at 1801 Congress Ave. in Austin. The meeting will be streamed live on the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s YouTube channel.
Among the meeting’s more notable items are three internal audit reports for fiscal 2026, including one covering lottery and charitable bingo operations. The item reflects changes made under Senate Bill 3070, which abolished the Texas Lottery Commission effective Sept. 1, 2025, transferring rulemaking authority over the lottery and charitable bingo to the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation while moving day-to-day operations to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
The transition also appears elsewhere on the agenda. The commission will consider appointments to the Texas Lottery Advisory Committee alongside appointments to advisory boards for behavior analysts, elevator and escalator safety, and elimination of architectural barriers.
The meeting’s most significant rulemaking for the construction industry is a proposal to adopt the 2026 National Electrical Code as Texas’ statewide electrical code. The proposal includes a limited exception involving ground-fault circuit interrupter requirements for certain outdoor outlets.
Commissioners will also consider updating the state’s air conditioning and refrigeration standards by adopting the 2024 editions of the International Residential Code, International Mechanical Code, International Fuel Gas Code and Uniform Mechanical Code. The updates would replace the current 2021 editions and establish the building standards licensed contractors must follow.
Several agenda items implement legislation approved during the 2025 legislative session.
One proposal would implement Senate Bill 2443 by allowing applicants and license holders to receive contested-case pleadings, notices and orders electronically under certain circumstances and by authorizing electronic notification of dishonored payments.
Another would implement Senate Bill 968 by eliminating provisional licenses in the podiatric medicine program and repealing separate training requirements for advisory board members.
Additional rule changes would implement Senate Bills 904, 905 and 2075 for speech-language pathology, audiology and hearing instrument programs. The proposals include a new requirement that first-time hearing instrument fitter license renewals include 20 hours of continuing education and would allow hearing instruments to be sold to minors based on a written statement from any licensed physician rather than requiring documentation from an ear specialist.
The commission will also formally introduce new Commissioner Jana Hall of Sweetwater, whose term runs through Feb. 1, 2031.
Other agenda items include eight contested cases referred by the State Office of Administrative Hearings involving massage therapy, cosmetology, electrical and barbering matters, a motion for rehearing filed by London Service LP, enforcement plans for the electricians and residential solar retailers programs, a contract award for internal audit services and the agency’s Legislative Appropriations Request for the 2028-29 biennium.
Written public comments closed July 23. Members of the public may provide in-person comments during the meeting, with remarks limited to three minutes per speaker.