By: Gutierrez H.B. No. 345
73R1585 MJW-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the authority of an agricultural marketing association
1-3 to deal in nonmember products and supplies.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.012(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) A marketing association that is organized primarily for
1-8 the production, cultivation, and care of citrus groves or <and> for
1-9 the processing and marketing of citrus products and for which the
1-10 principal offices are located in a county in which not less than
1-11 500 acres of land are planted in producing citrus groves may deal
1-12 in the products and supplies of nonmembers to an amount that is
1-13 greater than the value of the products that it handles for its
1-14 members for the 10-year <five-year> period immediately following a
1-15 natural disaster, such as a severe freeze, during which the citrus
1-16 crops of the association's membership are substantially reduced as
1-17 a direct result of the disaster.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.