By Hirschi H.B. No. 1471
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an integrated pest management program for day-care
1-3 centers and nursing homes.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4J (d), Texas Structural Pest Control Act
1-6 (Article 135b-6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-7 as follows:
1-8 (d) The board shall include in standards adopted under this
1-9 section:
1-10 (1) a requirement that the least hazardous <toxic>
1-11 methods available to control pests, rodents, insects, and weeds be
1-12 used; and
1-13 (2) a list of products that a school district is
1-14 allowed to use in its applications.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 4J, Texas Structural Pest Control Act
1-16 (Article 135b-6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-17 adding subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-18 (f) The Board shall adopt standards for integrated pest
1-19 management in day-care centers and nursing homes consistent with
1-20 those in Section 4J (a) and (d). Standards adopted for day-care
1-21 centers shall also be consistent with Section 4J (e). Each
1-22 day-care center and nursing home shall comply with standards
1-23 adopted by the board under this subsection by September 1, 1996.
2-1 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-2 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspen1ded, and this rule is hereby
2-7 suspended.