By Brown S.B. No. 590 74R5245 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Department of Agriculture to sell 1-3 advertisements in its publications. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 12.032 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 12.032. ADVERTISEMENTS IN DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS. (a) 1-8 The department may sell advertisements in publications of the 1-9 department. 1-10 (b) The department shall adopt rules to implement the sale 1-11 of advertisements under Subsection (a), including rules regulating: 1-12 (1) the cost of advertisements; 1-13 (2) the type of products or services that may be 1-14 advertised; 1-15 (3) the size of advertisements; and 1-16 (4) refunds on advertisements that are not run. 1-17 (c) Proceeds from the sale of advertisements shall be 1-18 deposited in the general revenue fund. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.