By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 401
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the requirements for licensing of public employees who
    1-2  perform pest control services.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Article 135b-6, the Structural Pest Control Act,
    1-5  is amended by amending Sec. 4B(b) to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  An individual must be licensed as a certified
    1-7  noncommercial applicator if the individual is not licensed as a
    1-8  certified commercial applicator and the individual:
    1-9              (1)  is an employee of the state or a city or county
   1-10  not excepted from the licensing provisions of this Act under
   1-11  Section 5(b) or Section 11 of this Act who <and> engages in the
   1-12  business of structural pest control; or
   1-13              (2)  is an employee of a person who owns, operates, or
   1-14  maintains a building, the individual engages in the business of
   1-15  structural pest control in the building, and the building is an
   1-16  apartment building; day-care center; hospital, nursing home; hotel;
   1-17  motel; lodge, warehouse; food-processing establishment, other than
   1-18  a restaurant, retail food, or food service establishment; school or
   1-19  educational institution.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.