By: Bailey H.B. No. 141
73R1441 LGF-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the minimum age of a person to whom fireworks may be
1-3 sold.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 17(d), Article 5.43-4, Insurance Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (d) Fireworks may not be sold or offered for sale to a
1-8 person <children> under 18 <12> years of age or to an intoxicated
1-9 or incompetent person. A person selling fireworks at retail shall
1-10 make a reasonable effort to ascertain that potential purchasers are
1-11 of the minimum age required by this subsection.
1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.