By Swinford H.B. No. 1678
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to inspection, labeling, and sale of agricultural and
1-3 vegetable seed.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 61.016(c), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (c) This chapter does not prevent one farmer from selling to
1-8 another farmer seed grown on his or her own farm without having the
1-9 seed tested or labeled as required by this chapter if the seed:
1-10 <(1) is not advertised in the public communications
1-11 media outside the vendor's home county;>
1-12 <(2)> (1) is not sold or offered or exposed for sale
1-13 by an individual or organization for the farmer; and
1-14 <(3)> (2) is not shipped by a common carrier.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
1-16 applies only to agricultural or vegetable seed sold on or after
1-17 that date.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.