Order allows the board to continue its operations through May 31, 2021, giving the 87th legislature time to address the matter. 

Texas’ state plumbing code is currently on track to cease to exist on Sept. 1, while the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners will have a “wind down” period that has it wrapping up operations by September 2020.

Concerned plumbers want governor to call for a special session to implement state plumbing regulation before the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners is abolished.

'We do not want to see a well-regulated industry be subject to deregulation and thereby, put the health and safety of Texas citizens at risk.'

"We've got this," the governor tells plumbers worried as their profession faces deregulation.

Plumbers call for special session after the Texas House ended the state plumbing code and a plumbing regulation agency.

Lawmakers want to fold the board into the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, an agency that oversees more than two dozen professions.

Perchlorate is a component of rocket fuel, fireworks and some food packaging.

James B. Rogers, 33, when he was buried alive after a nearly 11-foot trench collapsed while he was trying to install a sewer pipe during the construction of a residence.

According to the OSHA video, unsafe trenching kills 40 construction workers a year.