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.