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.