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.