1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 469
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1997; February 11, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
1-5 Nays 0; April 4, 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. Subsection (b), Section 41.125, Agriculture Code,
1-12 is amended 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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