By Kuempel H.B. No. 2167 74R6945 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the abolishment of the Agriculture Resources Protection 1-3 Authority. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 76.009, Agriculture Code, is repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2. On the effective date of this Act: 1-7 (1) the Agriculture Resources Protection Authority is 1-8 abolished, and the terms of the members of the authority expire; 1-9 and 1-10 (2) all property and records of the Agriculture 1-11 Resources Protection Authority are transferred to the Department of 1-12 Agriculture. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.