1-1     By:  Jones of Lubbock (Senate Sponsor - Duncan)        H.B. No. 950

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Natural

 1-4     Resources; May 1, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 1, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the inactive status of the Texas Soybean Producers

 1-9     Board.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 41.125(b), Agriculture Code, is amended

1-12     to read as follows:

1-13           (b)  The Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Producers Board and

1-14     the Texas Soybean Producers Board are [is] inactive as provided by

1-15     Section 41.126 of this code until reactivated under Section 41.127

1-16     of this code.  Neither [The] board is [not] abolished, and a

1-17     referendum election under Subchapter C of this chapter is not

1-18     required to reactivate either [the] board.

1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 41.126, Agriculture Code, is amended to

1-20     read as follows:

1-21           Sec. 41.126.  POWERS AND DUTIES.  (a)  A board listed in

1-22     Subsection (a) of Section 41.125 of this code may not exercise any

1-23     powers under this chapter after the end of the board's 1989 fiscal

1-24     year other than preparing and submitting the fiscal year 1989

1-25     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

1-26           (b)  The Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Producers Board [A

1-27     board listed in Subsection (b) of Section 41.125 of this code] may

1-28     not exercise any powers under this chapter after the end of the

1-29     board's 1993 fiscal year other than preparing and submitting the

1-30     fiscal year 1993 report required by Subsection (c) of Section

1-31     41.059 of this code.

1-32           (c)  The Texas Soybean Producers Board may not exercise any

1-33     powers under this chapter after the end of the board's 1997 fiscal

1-34     year other than preparing and submitting the fiscal year 1997

1-35     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

1-36           (d)  After submitting the report required by Subsection (a),

1-37     [or] (b), or (c) of this section, the board may not conduct

1-38     biennial elections under Section 41.032 of this code or submit the

1-39     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

1-40           (e) [(d)]  The board may collect the assessment only during

1-41     the fiscal year for which a report is required by Subsection (a),

1-42     [or] (b), or (c) of this section.

1-43           (f) [(e)]  The board shall disburse funds as provided in the

1-44     budget of the fiscal year for which a report is required by

1-45     Subsection (a), [or] (b), or (c) of this section.  Money of the

1-46     board remaining on the first day after that fiscal year shall

1-47     remain in the board's depository bank until the board is

1-48     reactivated or the department by rule provides for the disposition

1-49     of the funds.

1-50           (g) [(f)]  Members of the board serving on the date the final

1-51     report is submitted continue to serve until their successors are

1-52     elected and qualify for office.

1-53           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-54     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-55     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-56     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-57     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-58     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-59     passage, and it is so enacted.

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