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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