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  Section 44.003, Agriculture Code, is repealed.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.