By Nelson                                              S.B. No. 955
       74R7545 DLF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to exemptions from regulation as a food manufacturer or
    1-3  wholesaler.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 431.2211, Health and Safety Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 431.2211.  APPLICATION OF SUBCHAPTER. This subchapter
    1-8  does not apply to:
    1-9              (1)  a person, firm, or corporation that harvests,
   1-10  packages, washes, or ships raw fruits or vegetables; or
   1-11              (2)  an individual who sells prepackaged nonperishable
   1-12  foods, including dietary supplements, from a private home.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.