By Duncan S.B. No. 469
75R681 MWV-D
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.