By Duncan                                        S.B. No. 469

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the inactive status of the Texas Soybean Producers

 1-3     Board.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 41.125(b), Agriculture Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Producers Board and

 1-8     the Texas Soybean Producers Board are [is] inactive as provided by

 1-9     Section 41.126 of this code until reactivated under Section 41.127

1-10     of this code.  Neither [The] board is [not] abolished, and a

1-11     referendum election under Subchapter C of this chapter is not

1-12     required to reactivate either [the] board.

1-13           SECTION 2.  Section 41.126, Agriculture Code, is amended to

1-14     read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 41.126.  POWERS AND DUTIES.  (a)  A board listed in

1-16     Subsection (a) of Section 41.125 of this code may not exercise any

1-17     powers under this chapter after the end of the board's 1989 fiscal

1-18     year other than preparing and submitting the fiscal year 1989

1-19     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

1-20           (b)  The Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Producers Board [A

1-21     board listed in Subsection (b) of Section 41.125 of this code] may

1-22     not exercise any powers under this chapter after the end of the

1-23     board's 1993 fiscal year other than preparing and submitting the

1-24     fiscal year 1993 report required by Subsection (c) of Section

 2-1     41.059 of this code.

 2-2           (c)  The Texas Soybean Producers Board may not exercise any

 2-3     powers under this chapter after the end of the board's 1997 fiscal

 2-4     year other than preparing and submitting the fiscal year 1997

 2-5     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

 2-6           (d)  After submitting the report required by Subsection (a),

 2-7     [or] (b), or (c) of this section, the board may not conduct

 2-8     biennial elections under Section 41.032 of this code or submit the

 2-9     report required by Subsection (c) of Section 41.059 of this code.

2-10           (e) [(d)]  The board may collect the assessment only during

2-11     the fiscal year for which a report is required by Subsection (a),

2-12     [or] (b), or (c) of this section.

2-13           (f) [(e)]  The board shall disburse funds as provided in the

2-14     budget of the fiscal year for which a report is required by

2-15     Subsection (a), [or] (b), or (c) of this section.  Money of the

2-16     board remaining on the first day after that fiscal year shall

2-17     remain in the board's depository bank until the board is

2-18     reactivated or the department by rule provides for the disposition

2-19     of the funds.

2-20           (g) [(f)]  Members of the board serving on the date the final

2-21     report is submitted continue to serve until their successors are

2-22     elected and qualify for office.

2-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 3-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 3-2     passage, and it is so enacted.