Bill Text: TX SB706 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to classification of a liquid substance used to fill an electronic cigarette as a hazardous substance.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-06 - Left pending in committee [SB706 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB706-Introduced.html
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| By: Garcia | S.B. No. 706 | |
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| relating to classification of a liquid substance used to fill an | ||
| electronic cigarette as a hazardous substance. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 501.002(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) A hazardous substance is: | ||
| (1) a substance or mixture of substances that is | ||
| toxic, corrosive, extremely flammable, flammable, combustible, an | ||
| irritant, or a strong sensitizer, or that generates pressure | ||
| through decomposition, heat, or other means, if the substance or | ||
| mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or | ||
| substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any | ||
| customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including | ||
| reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children; | ||
| (2) a toy or other article, other than clothing, that | ||
| is intended for use by a child and that presents an electrical, | ||
| mechanical, or thermal hazard; [ |
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| (3) a radioactive substance designated as a hazardous | ||
| substance under Section 501.003; or | ||
| (4) a liquid substance used to fill or refill a device | ||
| that simulates smoking by using a mechanical heating element, | ||
| battery, or electronic circuit to deliver vapor that may include | ||
| nicotine to an individual inhaling from the device. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
