By Hirschi H.B. No. 1726
75R6182 CAG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to an integrated pest management program at an institution
1-3 of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4J, Texas Structural Pest Control Act
1-6 (Article 135b-6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended by
1-7 amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (f) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (d) The board shall include in standards adopted under this
1-10 section:
1-11 (1) a requirement that the least hazardous [toxic]
1-12 methods available to control pests, rodents, insects, and weeds be
1-13 used; and
1-14 (2) a list of products that a school district is
1-15 allowed to use in its applications.
1-16 (f) The board shall establish standards for an integrated
1-17 pest management program for an institution of higher education that
1-18 are consistent with Subsections (a) and (d) of this section. An
1-19 institution of higher education shall adopt an integrated pest
1-20 management program that incorporates the standards developed by the
1-21 board under this subsection.
1-22 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-23 (b) The Texas Structural Pest Control Board shall adopt initial
1-24 standards relating to integrated pest management programs at
2-1 institutions of higher education not later than October 1, 1997.
2-2 (c) The governing board of each institution of higher
2-3 education shall establish an integrated pest management program as
2-4 required by this Act not later than January 1, 1998.
2-5 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.