By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 920
       73R6404 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of the Texas Seafood Marketing Program.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife
    1-5  Code, is amended by adding Section 12.009 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 12.009.  TEXAS SEAFOOD MARKETING PROGRAM.  (a)  The
    1-7  department shall develop and administer a market promotion program
    1-8  to foster and expand the sale and consumption of seafood by the
    1-9  public.  The department may use its own personnel or contract for
   1-10  personnel and use only state funds or state funds in conjunction
   1-11  with federal or private funds.
   1-12        (b)  Forty percent of the funds collected from commercial
   1-13  fisherman's license fees, 20 percent of wholesale fish dealers'
   1-14  license fees and wholesale truck dealers' fish license fees, and 50
   1-15  percent of shrimp house operators' license fees shall be used by
   1-16  the department in carrying out the program required by this
   1-17  section.
   1-18        (c)  The Texas seafood marketing board shall advise and
   1-19  assist the department in the development and administration of the
   1-20  seafood marketing program.  The board consists of 10 members
   1-21  appointed by the governor to represent wholesale and retail seafood
   1-22  marketers, as follows:
   1-23              (1)  two representatives of the seafood distribution
   1-24  industry;
    2-1              (2)  two representatives of the seafood processing
    2-2  industry; and
    2-3              (3)  six representatives of the seafood production
    2-4  industry, including:
    2-5                    (A)  two representatives appointed from a list
    2-6  recommended by the Texas Shrimp Association;
    2-7                    (B)  one representative of aquaculture shrimpers;
    2-8                    (C)  one representative of aquaculture fishermen;
    2-9                    (D)  one representative of wildlife oyster bay
   2-10  fisheries; and
   2-11                    (E)  one representative of wildlife shrimp bay
   2-12  fisheries.
   2-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-19  passage, and it is so enacted.