1-1 By: Glaze, Counts, Moffat, Turner of Coleman H.B. No. 334
1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Haley)
1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 13, 1993;
1-4 April 14, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-5 Natural Resources; April 27, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-6 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 27, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to certain devices used to protect nursery stock and the
1-23 inspection of those devices when used for commercial purposes.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 71.041, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-26 adding Subdivision (5) to read as follows:
1-27 (5) "Nursery stock weather protection unit" means a
1-28 plant cover consisting of a series of removable, portable metal
1-29 hoops, covered by nonreusable plastic sheeting, shade cloth, or
1-30 other similar removable material, used exclusively for protecting
1-31 nursery products from weather elements. A nursery stock weather
1-32 protection unit is an implement of husbandry for all purposes,
1-33 including Article VIII, Section 19a, of the Texas Constitution.
1-34 SECTION 2. Section 71.044(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-35 to read as follows:
1-36 (a) At least once every three years the department shall
1-37 inspect each nursery, greenhouse, orchard, garden, florist, nursery
1-38 stock weather protection unit, or other place growing for sale or
1-39 lease or offering for sale or lease a nursery product, florist
1-40 item, or other item of plant life in order to determine if the
1-41 product, item, or premises are infected with a disease or insect
1-42 pest injurious to human, animal, or plant life.
1-43 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994.
1-44 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-50 Austin,
1-51 Texas
1-52 April 27, 1993
1-53 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-54 President of the Senate
1-55 Sir:
1-56 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-57 No. 334, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-58 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-59 pass and be printed.
1-60 Sims,
1-61 Chairman
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1-63 WITNESSES
1-64 FOR AGAINST ON
1-65 ___________________________________________________________________
1-66 Name: Jeff T Tuley x
1-67 City: Murchison, Texas
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2-1 Name: James K Presnal x
2-2 Representing: Texas Assn of Nurserymen
2-3 City: Austin, Texas
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2-5 Name: Ed Edmondson x
2-6 Representing: Texas Assn of Nurserymen
2-7 City: Austin, Texas
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2-9 Name: Robert William Cartwright x
2-10 Representing: Ran Pro Farms Inc
2-11 City: Tyler, Texas
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