1-1  By:  Rosson                                            S.B. No. 707
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 1995; February 23, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Economic Development;
    1-4  April 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 10,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 5, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the accessibility of certain glues and paints to
    1-9  business patrons in certain municipalities.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 485.018, Health and
   1-12  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  This section does not apply to an ordinance or rule
   1-14  that:
   1-15              (1)  was enacted before September 1, 1989; or
   1-16              (2)  is enacted by a municipality if the governing body
   1-17  of the municipality finds by resolution that the problems
   1-18  associated with glue or aerosol paint abuse in the municipality are
   1-19  so pervasive that enacting an ordinance or rule limiting patron
   1-20  accessibility is necessary to promote public health, safety, or
   1-21  welfare.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-25  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-26  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-27  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-28  passage, and it is so enacted.
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