1-1  By:  Eckels (Senate Sponsor - Shelley)                H.B. No. 2220
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
    1-3  April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; May 7, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Sims               x                               
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos         x                               
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Brown              x                               
   1-14        Carriker           x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Montford                                       x   
   1-17        Ratliff                                        x   
   1-18        Shelley            x                               
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Agriculture to
   1-22  sell publications and collect publication fees.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by
   1-25  adding Section 12.031 to read as follows:
   1-26        Sec. 12.031.  Publications and Publication Fees.  (a)  The
   1-27  department may provide or sell information, including books,
   1-28  magazines, photographs, prints, and bulletins, to the public
   1-29  concerning agriculture, horticulture, or related industries.
   1-30        (b)  The department may receive royalties on department-owned
   1-31  materials that are sold or supplied to others by the department for
   1-32  publication.
   1-33        (c)  The department may enter into contractual agreements for
   1-34  publication of information concerning agriculture, horticulture, or
   1-35  related industries.
   1-36        (d)  Money received under this section shall be deposited in
   1-37  the State Treasury to the credit of the fund from which expenses
   1-38  for the publication were paid.
   1-39        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately.
   1-40        SECTION 3.  The importance of the legislation and the crowded
   1-41  condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
   1-42  an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
   1-43  requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
   1-44  suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-46                                                         Austin,
   1-47  Texas
   1-48                                                         May 7, 1993
   1-49  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-50  President of the Senate
   1-51  Sir:
   1-52  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
   1-53  No. 2220, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-54  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-55  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-56                                                         Sims,
   1-57  Chairman
   1-58                               * * * * *
   1-59                               WITNESSES
   1-60  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2220.