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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.