By Romo H.B. No. 2744
74R7119 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the fee paid for inspection of compost.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 63.071(h), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (h) The <A person is not required to pay an> inspection fee
1-7 on compost as defined by Section 361.421, Health and Safety Code,
1-8 is 25 percent of an inspection fee imposed under this section for
1-9 commercial fertilizer distributed in this state, if the compost is
1-10 labeled, advertised, or otherwise identified or sold as a
1-11 fertilizer or as having nutritive value. A person is not required
1-12 to pay an inspection fee on compost that is not labeled,
1-13 advertised, or otherwise identified or sold as a fertilizer or as
1-14 having nutritive value.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 361.421(1), Health and Safety Code, is
1-16 amended to read as follows:
1-17 (1) "Compost" is the disinfected and stabilized
1-18 product of the decomposition process that may be <is> used or sold
1-19 for use as a soil amendment, artificial top soil, growing medium
1-20 amendment, fertilizer, or other similar uses.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.