1-1  By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 590
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 20, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
    1-4  April 5, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; April 5, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 590                    By:  Brown
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the authority of the Department of Agriculture to sell
   1-11  advertisements in its publications.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Chapter 12, Agriculture Code, is amended by
   1-14  adding Section 12.032 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 12.032.  ADVERTISEMENTS IN DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS.
   1-16  (a)  The department may sell advertisements in publications of the
   1-17  department.
   1-18        (b)  The department shall adopt rules to implement the sale
   1-19  of advertisements under Subsection (a), including rules regulating:
   1-20              (1)  the costs of advertisements;
   1-21              (2)  the type of products, services, or events that may
   1-22  be advertised;
   1-23              (3)  the size of advertisements; and
   1-24              (4)  refunds on advertisements that are not run.
   1-25        (c)  Proceeds from the sale of advertisements shall be used
   1-26  to pay the department's publication costs.  Any excess funds shall
   1-27  be deposited in the general revenue fund.
   1-28        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-33  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-34  passage, and it is so enacted.
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