1-1 By: Sims, Lucio S.B. No. 700
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1995; February 23, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 March 2, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; March 2, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Turner
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 700, SECTION 2, Section 76.044(a), on line 17
1-8 (committee printing line 27), by deleting "$200" and substituting
1-9 "$300".
1-10 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-11 AN ACT
1-12 relating to the registration of pesticides.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (c), Section 76.043,
1-15 Agriculture Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-16 (a) Registration of a pesticide expires on the second
1-17 anniversary of the date of its approval or renewal except that the
1-18 department shall by rule adopt a system under which registrations
1-19 expire on various dates during the year <annually on December 31>.
1-20 (c) A registration in effect on its expiration date
1-21 <December 31> for which a renewal application has been filed and
1-22 renewal fee has been paid continues in effect until the department
1-23 notifies the applicant that the registration has been renewed or
1-24 denied renewal.
1-25 SECTION 2. Subsection (a), Section 76.044, Agriculture Code,
1-26 is amended to read as follows:
1-27 (a) A nonrefundable fee of $200 <$100> for each pesticide to
1-28 be registered must be submitted with an application for
1-29 registration or renewal of registration.
1-30 SECTION 3. A registration that is in effect on the effective
1-31 date of this Act remains in effect until the earlier of the date on
1-32 which the registration expires or on which it is revoked by the
1-33 department.
1-34 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-40 passage, and it is so enacted.
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