By: Armbrister S.B. No. 428 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to symbols imprinted on or molded into certain plastic 1-2 containers. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 369.002, Health and Safety Code, is 1-5 amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsection (f) to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (e) The department may approve the use of another nationally 1-8 or internationally recognized label coding system for 1-9 special-purpose plastic bottles or rigid plastic containers in 1-10 place of the symbols described by Subsections (c) and (d). 1-11 (f) The department shall: 1-12 (1) maintain a list of the symbols; and 1-13 (2) provide a copy of that list to any person on 1-14 request. 1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.