By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 1735
       74R6140 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the registration of pesticides.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 76.043(a) and (c), Agriculture Code, are
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  Registration of a pesticide expires on the second
    1-7  anniversary of the date of its approval or renewal except that the
    1-8  department shall by rule adopt a system under which registrations
    1-9  expire on various dates during the year <annually on December 31>.
   1-10        (c)  A registration in effect on its expiration date
   1-11  <December 31> for which a renewal application has been filed and
   1-12  renewal fee has been paid continues in effect until the department
   1-13  notifies the applicant that the registration has been renewed or
   1-14  denied renewal.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  Section 76.044(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
   1-16  to read as follows:
   1-17        (a)  A nonrefundable fee of $200 <$100> for each pesticide to
   1-18  be registered must be submitted with an application for
   1-19  registration or renewal of registration.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  A registration that is in effect on the effective
   1-21  date of this Act remains in effect until the earlier of the date on
   1-22  which the registration expires or is revoked by the department.
   1-23        SECTION 4.  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.