1-1 By: Patterson (Senate Sponsor - Shelley) H.B. No. 1320
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
1-3 April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural
1-4 Resources; April 15, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 2; April 15, 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 the State Seed and Plant Board to hold
1-22 board meetings telephonically.
1-23 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-24 SECTION 1. Chapter 62, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-25 adding Section 62.0021 to read as follows:
1-26 Sec. 62.0021. MEETING BY TELEPHONE CONFERENCE CALL.
1-27 (a) Notwithstanding Chapter 271, Acts of the 60th Legislature,
1-28 Regular Session, 1967 (Article 6252-17, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-29 Statutes), the board may hold an open or closed meeting by
1-30 telephone conference call if immediate action is required and the
1-31 convening at one location of a quorum of the board is inconvenient
1-32 for any member of the board.
1-33 (b) The meeting is subject to the notice requirements
1-34 applicable to other meetings.
1-35 (c) The notice of the meeting must specify as the location
1-36 of the meeting the location where meetings of the board are usually
1-37 held.
1-38 (d) Each part of the meeting that is required to be open to
1-39 the public shall be audible to the public at the location specified
1-40 in the notice of the meeting as the location of the meeting and
1-41 shall be tape-recorded. The tape recording shall be made available
1-42 to the public.
1-43 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-48 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-49 passage, and it is so enacted.
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1-51 Austin,
1-52 Texas
1-53 April 15, 1993
1-54 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-55 President of the Senate
1-56 Sir:
1-57 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-58 No. 1320, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-59 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-60 that it do pass and be printed.
1-61 Truan,
1-62 Vice-Chairman
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 WITNESSES
1-65 FOR AGAINST ON
1-66 ___________________________________________________________________
1-67 Name: James Allison x
1-68 Representing: State Seed & Plant Board
2-1 City: Tulia
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2-3 Name: Charles A. Leamons x
2-4 Representing: Tx Dept of Agriculture
2-5 City: Giddings
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