By Hudson H.B. No. 2104
74R7004 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to prohibiting the registration, sale, use, and
1-3 application of chlordane; providing a penalty.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 76, Agriculture Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 76.1011 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 76.1011. PROHIBITION OF CHLORDANE. Because of the
1-8 potential risk to human health, the registration, sale, use, and
1-9 application by a person of the pesticide chlordane or of a product
1-10 that contains chlordane is prohibited.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 76.117, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 76.117. PROPERTY OWNER USE. Except for chlordane or
1-14 pesticides that contain chlordane, this <This> chapter does not
1-15 prohibit a property owner from using in the property owner's house,
1-16 lawn, or garden a pesticide that is labeled for that use, other
1-17 than a pesticide that may be registered and classified for use only
1-18 by certified applicators.
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
1-20 applies to the registration, sale, use, and application by a person
1-21 of chlordane or a product that contains chlordane that occurs on or
1-22 after that date.
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.