H.B. No. 1687
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to increasing the grant amounts for and to the
1-3 administration of the agricultural diversification and
1-4 microenterprise support programs.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 44.004(e), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-7 to read as follows:
1-8 (e) A grant under this section may not exceed $50,000
1-9 <30,000>.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 44.005(e), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 (e) A grant under this section may not exceed $50,000
1-13 <30,000>.
1-14 SECTION 3. Section 44.001, Agriculture Code, is amended by
1-15 adding Subdivision (8) to read as follows:
1-16 (8) "Board" means the board of directors of the Texas
1-17 Agricultural Finance Authority in Chapter 58 of this code.
1-18 SECTION 4. Section 44.003, Agriculture Code, is repealed.
1-19 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.