1-1 By: Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Sims) H.B. No. 1652
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 20, 1993;
1-3 April 21, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Natural Resources; May 14, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0;
1-6 May 14, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1652 By: Shelley
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the membership of the Texas Animal Health Commission.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 161.021(a), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-26 to read as follows:
1-27 (a) The commission is composed of twelve commissioners
1-28 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the
1-29 senate, with the appropriate number from each of the following
1-30 categories:
1-31 (1) a practitioner of veterinary medicine;
1-32 (2) a dairyman;
1-33 (3) a cattle raiser;
1-34 (4) a hog raiser;
1-35 (5) a sheep or goat raiser;
1-36 (6) a poultry raiser;
1-37 (7) an individual involved in the equine industry;
1-38 (8) an individual involved in the feedlot industry;
1-39 (9) an individual involved in the livestock marketing
1-40 industry; <and>
1-41 (10) two <three> members of the general public; and
1-42 (11) an individual involved in the exotic livestock or
1-43 exotic fowl industry.
1-44 SECTION 2. Section 161.022, Agriculture Code, is amended to
1-45 read as follows:
1-46 Sec. 161.022. Term. Commissioners serve for staggered terms
1-47 of six years, with the terms of four <three> members expiring every
1-48 other year.
1-49 SECTION 3. The governor shall appoint an individual involved
1-50 in the exotic livestock or exotic fowl industry to the first
1-51 vacancy occurring after the effective date of this Act in a general
1-52 public position on the Texas Animal Health Commission.
1-53 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-54 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-58 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-59 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-60 * * * * *
1-61 Austin,
1-62 Texas
1-63 May 14, 1993
1-64 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-65 President of the Senate
1-66 Sir:
1-67 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
1-68 No. 1652, have had the same under consideration, and I am
2-1 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
2-2 that it do not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in
2-3 lieu thereof do pass and be printed.
2-4 Sims,
2-5 Chairman
2-6 * * * * *
2-7 WITNESSES
2-8 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1652.