By West H.B. No. 1076
74R2998 PAM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to authorizing certain local governments to regulate the
1-3 accessibility of certain glues and paints to business patrons.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 485.018, Health and Safety Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 485.018. Prohibited Ordinance and Rule. (a) Except as
1-8 provided by Subsection (c), a <A> political subdivision or an
1-9 agency of the state may not enact an ordinance or rule that
1-10 requires a business establishment to display abusable glue or
1-11 aerosol paint in a manner that makes the glue or paint accessible
1-12 to patrons of the business only with the assistance of personnel of
1-13 the business.
1-14 (b) Subsection (a) <This section> does not apply to an
1-15 ordinance or rule that was enacted before September 1, 1989.
1-16 (c) The governing body of a municipality by ordinance or the
1-17 commissioners court of a county by order may regulate the
1-18 accessibility of abusable glue and aerosol paint to business
1-19 patrons.
1-20 (d) If an order adopted by a county under this section
1-21 conflicts with a municipal ordinance, the county order prevails to
1-22 the extent of the conflict.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.