By:  Carriker                                          S.B. No. 442
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the use of herbicides in certain counties.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Chapter 75, Agriculture Code, is amended by
    1-4  adding Section 75.0221 to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 75.0221.  PROHIBITING THE USE OF ESTER FORMULATIONS OF
    1-6  2, 4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.  (a)  The
    1-7  commissioners court of a county exempted under Section 75.022(a) of
    1-8  this code may adopt an order prohibiting the use of ester
    1-9  formulations of 2, 4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid.  The prohibition
   1-10  may only be effective after April 30 and before September 16.
   1-11        (b)  If a commissioners court adopts an order under
   1-12  Subsection (a) of this section, the exemption authorized by Section
   1-13  75.022(a) is still applicable unless otherwise revoked.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.