By: Kubiak H.B. No. 221 73R539 MLM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to exempting producers of fruits and vegetables from a 1-3 prohibition on placing a sign on a public road right-of-way. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 834, Acts of the 68th Legislature, 1-6 Regular Session, 1983 (Article 2372cc, Vernon's Texas Civil 1-7 Statutes), is amended by adding Section 7 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 7. APPLICABILITY. This Act does not apply to a person 1-9 who produces fruits or vegetables and who advertises the person's 1-10 own produce for sale. 1-11 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to any 1-12 offense committed in which there has not been a final conviction 1-13 entered before the effective date of this Act. 1-14 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.