1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 920
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 May 7, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 7, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Sims x
1-10 Truan x
1-11 Armbrister x
1-12 Barrientos x
1-13 Bivins x
1-14 Brown x
1-15 Carriker x
1-16 Lucio x
1-17 Montford x
1-18 Ratliff x
1-19 Shelley x
1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 920 By: Lucio
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the creation of the Texas Seafood Marketing Program and
1-24 to the dedication of certain revenue.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 12, Parks and Wildlife
1-27 Code, is amended by adding Section 12.009 to read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 12.009. TEXAS SEAFOOD MARKETING PROGRAM. (a) The
1-29 Texas A&M University Sea Grant Program shall develop and administer
1-30 a market promotion program to:
1-31 (1) foster increased consumption of seafood by the
1-32 public;
1-33 (2) improve the quality and safety of seafood in
1-34 retail businesses; and
1-35 (3) develop business analyses and research that
1-36 support long-term industry viability and competitiveness.
1-37 (b) Forty percent of the funds collected from commercial
1-38 fisherman's license fees, 20 percent of wholesale fish dealers'
1-39 license fees and wholesale truck dealers' fish license fees, and 50
1-40 percent of shrimp house operators' license fees may be used only by
1-41 the Sea Grant Program for carrying out the program required by this
1-42 section.
1-43 (c) The Texas seafood marketing advisory committee shall
1-44 advise and assist the Sea Grant Program in the development and
1-45 administration of the seafood marketing program. The advisory
1-46 committee consists of 14 members appointed by the governor to
1-47 represent wholesale and retail seafood marketers, as follows:
1-48 (1) one representative appointed from a list of
1-49 candidates recommended by the Texas retail food industry;
1-50 (2) one representative appointed from a list of
1-51 candidates recommended by the specialty retail seafood industry;
1-52 (3) one representative appointed from a list of
1-53 candidates recommended by the Texas Restaurant Association;
1-54 (4) one representative appointed from a list of
1-55 candidates recommended by the seafood processing industry;
1-56 (5) six representatives from the seafood production
1-57 industry, including:
1-58 (A) two representatives appointed from a list of
1-59 candidates recommended by the Texas Shrimp Association;
1-60 (B) one representative appointed from a list of
1-61 candidates recommended by the Texas oyster industry;
1-62 (C) one representative appointed from a list of
1-63 candidates recommended by the Texas bay shrimp industry;
1-64 (D) one representative appointed from a list of
1-65 candidates recommended by the Texas crab industry; and
1-66 (E) one representative appointed from a list of
1-67 candidates recommended by the Texas finfish industry;
1-68 (6) one representative of The Texas A&M University Sea
2-1 Grant Program;
2-2 (7) one representative of the Texas Agricultural
2-3 Extension Service;
2-4 (8) one representative of the Texas Department of
2-5 Health; and
2-6 (9) one representative of the department.
2-7 SECTION 2. Forty percent of the commercial fisherman's
2-8 license fees, 20 percent of wholesale fish dealers' license fees
2-9 and wholesale truck dealers' fish license fees, and 50 percent of
2-10 shrimp house operators' license fees that are appropriated to the
2-11 Parks and Wildlife Department by S.B. No. 5, 73rd Legislature,
2-12 Regular Session, 1993, for each year of the fiscal biennium ending
2-13 August 31, 1995, estimated to be in the amount of $225,000 each
2-14 year, are transferred from the Parks and Wildlife Department to The
2-15 Texas A&M University System for the purposes provided by Section
2-16 12.009, Parks and Wildlife Code, as added by this Act.
2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.
2-24 * * * * *
2-25 Austin,
2-26 Texas
2-27 May 7, 1993
2-28 Hon. Bob Bullock
2-29 President of the Senate
2-30 Sir:
2-31 We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred S.B.
2-32 No. 920, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-33 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-34 not pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof
2-35 do pass and be printed.
2-36 Sims,
2-37 Chairman
2-38 * * * * *
2-39 WITNESSES
2-40 FOR AGAINST ON
2-41 ___________________________________________________________________
2-42 Name: Jim Sagnes x
2-43 Representing: Tx Shrimp Association
2-44 City: Preece
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2-46 Name: Mike Hightower x
2-47 Representing: Texas A&M Sea Grant College
2-48 City: Bryan
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