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          By Turner of Coleman                                  H.B. No. 1652
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the membership of the Texas Animal Health Commission.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 161.021(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
    1-5  to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The commission is composed of twelve commissioners
    1-7  appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the
    1-8  senate, with the appropriate number from each of the following
    1-9  categories:
   1-10              (1)  a practitioner of veterinary medicine;
   1-11              (2)  a dairyman;
   1-12              (3)  a cattle raiser;
   1-13              (4)  a hog raiser;
   1-14              (5)  a sheep or goat raiser;
   1-15              (6)  a poultry raiser;
   1-16              (7)  an individual involved in the equine industry;
   1-17              (8)  an individual involved in the feedlot industry;
   1-18              (9)  an individual involved in the livestock marketing
   1-19  industry; <and>
   1-20              (10)  two <three> members of the general public; and
   1-21              (11)  an individual involved in the exotic livestock
   1-22  industry.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 161.022, Agriculture Code, is amended to
   1-24  read as follows:
    2-1        Sec. 161.022.  Term.  Commissioners serve for staggered terms
    2-2  of six years, with the terms of four <three> members expiring every
    2-3  other year.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The governor shall appoint an individual involved
    2-5  in the exotic livestock industry to the first vacancy occurring
    2-6  after the effective date of this Act in a general public position
    2-7  on the Texas Animal Health Commission.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.