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  Section 76.009, Agriculture Code, is repealed.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.