By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 2700
       74R7874 SMH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the payment of commercial feed inspection fees to Texas
    1-3  Tech University for use in research relating to commercial feed.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 141.075, Agriculture Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (d), the
    1-9  <The> service shall deposit fees collected under this subchapter in
   1-10  the same manner that other local institutional fees of The Texas A
   1-11  & M University System are collected.  The fees shall be set apart
   1-12  as a special fund known as the Texas feed control fund.
   1-13        (d)  The service shall deposit a portion of the fees
   1-14  collected under this subchapter equal to two cents for each ton of
   1-15  commercial feed in the state treasury to the credit of an account
   1-16  in the general revenue fund that may be appropriated only to Texas
   1-17  Tech University for research relating to commercial feed.  Section
   1-18  403.095, Government Code, does not apply to the account.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.