S.B. No. 707
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to creating an offense for the possession of aerosol paint
    1-2  by a person younger than 18 years of age and regulating access by
    1-3  customers to aerosol paints; providing penalties.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 485, Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, is amended by adding Section 485.0331 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 485.0331.  POSSESSION OF AEROSOL PAINT BY A MINOR.
    1-8  (a)  A person who is younger than 18 years of age commits an
    1-9  offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses aerosol
   1-10  paint.
   1-11        (b)  It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this
   1-12  section that the person possesses the aerosol paint while under the
   1-13  direct supervision of an adult having supervisory responsibility
   1-14  over the person.
   1-15        (c)  An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 485, Health and Safety
   1-17  Code, is amended by adding Section 485.019 to read as follows:
   1-18        Sec. 485.019.  RESTRICTION OF ACCESS TO AEROSOL PAINTS.
   1-19  (a)  A business establishment that displays aerosol paints must
   1-20  display the paints:
   1-21              (1)  in a place that is in the line of sight of a
   1-22  cashier or in the line of sight from a workstation normally
   1-23  continuously occupied during business hours;
    2-1              (2)  in a manner that makes the paint inaccessible to
    2-2  patrons of the business establishment without the assistance of an
    2-3  employee of the establishment; or
    2-4              (3)  in an area electronically protected, or viewed by
    2-5  surveillance equipment that is monitored, during business hours.
    2-6        (b)  A court may issue a warning to a business establishment
    2-7  for its first violation of this section or impose a civil penalty
    2-8  of $100.  After receiving a warning or penalty for a first
    2-9  violation, a business establishment is liable to the state for a
   2-10  civil penalty of $100 for each subsequent violation.
   2-11        (c)  For the third violation of this section in a calendar
   2-12  year, the court may issue an injunction prohibiting the business
   2-13  establishment from selling aerosol paints for a period of not more
   2-14  than two years.  A business establishment that violates the
   2-15  injunction is liable to the state for a civil penalty of $100, in
   2-16  addition to any other penalties allowed by law, for each day the
   2-17  violation continues.
   2-18        (d)  If a business establishment fails to pay a civil penalty
   2-19  under this section, a court may issue an injunction prohibiting the
   2-20  establishment from selling aerosol paints until the establishment
   2-21  pays the penalty, attorney's fees, and court costs.
   2-22        (e)  The attorney general or the county attorney or district
   2-23  attorney of the county in which a violation is alleged to have
   2-24  occurred may file suit to issue a warning, collect a penalty, or
   2-25  request an injunction.
    3-1        (f)  A penalty collected under this section shall be
    3-2  deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general
    3-3  revenue fund.
    3-4        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    3-5        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    3-6  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    3-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    3-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.