The proposal is subject to a 60-day public comment period, after which the department can issue the final rule, which could occur as soon as this fall.

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.

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.

Roughly 19 million people across the country are being exposed highly toxic fluorinated compounds called PFAS.