1-1     By:  Turner of Coleman (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)      H.B. No. 426
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Natural Resources; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to educational requirements for the executive director of
 1-9     the Texas Animal Health Commission.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 161, Agriculture Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 161.0305 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 161.0305.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR; QUALIFICATIONS.  The
1-14     executive director must hold a degree in veterinary medicine.
1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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