S.B. No. 759




AN ACT

relating to certain pesticide application by persons engaged in 
pest control work for a political subdivision.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 76.109, Agriculture Code, is amended by 
adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
	(h)  Neither this section nor any other law shall prohibit a 
political subdivision from reducing the number of hours of training 
or other requirements for an employee conducting larval mosquito 
control on property owned or controlled by the political 
subdivision using biological pesticides approved for general use by 
the Texas Department of Health, provided the employee is given 
instructions adequate to ensure the safe and effective use of such 
pesticides.
	SECTION 2.  Section 1951.053, Occupations Code, is amended 
by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
	(c)  Neither this section nor any other law shall prohibit a 
political subdivision from reducing the number of hours of training 
or other requirements for an employee conducting larval mosquito 
control on property owned or controlled by the political 
subdivision using biological pesticides approved for general use by 
the Texas Department of Health, provided the employee is given 
instructions adequate to ensure the safe and effective use of such 
pesticides.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect June 1, 2003, if it 
receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each 
house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  
If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for effect on that 
date, this Act takes effect September 1, 2003.





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President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 759 passed the Senate on 
March 27, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 1; and that 
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 29, 2003, by the 
following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




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   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 759 passed the House, with 
amendment, on May 25, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 117, 
Nays 0, two present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


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            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor