1-1 By: Gutierrez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 345
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
1-3 March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; April 27, 1993, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 27, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Sims x
1-9 Truan x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Brown x
1-14 Carriker x
1-15 Lucio x
1-16 Montford x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-20 AN ACT
1-21 relating to the authority of an agricultural marketing association
1-22 to deal in nonmember products and supplies.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Section 52.012(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-25 to read as follows:
1-26 (c) A marketing association that is organized primarily for
1-27 the production, cultivation, and care of citrus groves or <and> for
1-28 the processing and marketing of citrus products and for which the
1-29 principal offices are located in a county in which not less than
1-30 500 acres of land are planted in producing citrus groves may deal
1-31 in the products and supplies of nonmembers to an amount that is
1-32 greater than the value of the products that it handles for its
1-33 members for the 10-year <five-year> period immediately following a
1-34 natural disaster, such as a severe freeze, during which the citrus
1-35 crops of the association's membership are substantially reduced as
1-36 a direct result of the disaster.
1-37 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-42 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-43 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-44 * * * * *
1-45 Austin,
1-46 Texas
1-47 April 27, 1993
1-48 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-49 President of the Senate
1-50 Sir:
1-51 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-52 No. 345, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-53 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-54 pass and be printed.
1-55 Sims,
1-56 Chairman
1-57 * * * * *
1-58 WITNESSES
1-59 FOR AGAINST ON
1-60 ___________________________________________________________________
1-61 Name: James C. Terrell x
1-62 Representing: Texas Citrus Exchange
1-63 City: Austin Tx
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1-65 Name: Tommy W. Engelke x
1-66 Representing: Tx Agricultural Coop Council
1-67 City: Austin Tx
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2-1 Name: Ray Prewett x
2-2 Representing: Texas Citrus Mutual
2-3 City: Mission Tx
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2-5 Name: Jerry A. Walzel x
2-6 Representing: Tx Citrus & Vegetable Assn
2-7 City: Harlingen Tx
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