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      By Gutierrez                                    H.B. No. 3115

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to licensure of non-commercial applicators under the Texas

 1-3     Structural Pest Control Act, providing definitions and exemptions.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 135b-6, Texas Structural Pest Control

 1-6     Act, is amended by adding Section 2 (b) to read as follows:

 1-7           Section 2 (b) DEFINITIONS.  In this section:

 1-8                 (19)  "Structural Pest Control Business" means a

 1-9     commercial, for profit enterprise, normally engaged in a "for Hire"

1-10     service of identifying and exterminating structural borne pests in

1-11     the building through the use of pesticides.

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.