By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3220
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the labeling of consumer goods produced through the use
 1-3     of child labor; providing a criminal penalty.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.   Subchapter D, Chapter 35, Business & Commerce
 1-6     Code, is amended by adding Section 35.55 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 35.55.  LABELING OF CONSUMER GOODS PRODUCED THROUGH USE
 1-8     OF CHILD LABOR.  (a)  In this section:
 1-9                 (1)  "Child" means an individual younger than 16 years
1-10     of age.
1-11                 (2)  "Consumer good" means a good that is used or
1-12     bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household
1-13     purposes.
1-14                 (3)  "Mark" means to affix a label, sticker, or writing
1-15     to a good in a manner that is as permanent as the nature of the
1-16     good permits.
1-17           (b)  A person may not sell a consumer good produced through
1-18     the use of child labor unless the good is marked legibly in a
1-19     conspicuous place to indicate to a consumer that child labor was
1-20     used to produce the good.
1-21           (c)  A person who violates this section commits an offense.
1-22     An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.