By Swinford H.B. No. 1845
76R7096 BDH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to voting by members of an agricultural cooperative
1-3 marketing association.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 52.085(b), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (b) A marketing association may provide in its articles of
1-8 incorporation or bylaws for a member association or group to have
1-9 more than one vote if the association providing for the vote:
1-10 (1) is organized primarily for the production,
1-11 cultivation, and care of citrus groves or for processing and
1-12 marketing citrus products and: [;]
1-13 (A) [(2)] has its principal office in a county
1-14 that has at least 500 acres of land planted in citrus groves; and
1-15 (B) [(3)] includes as members one or more
1-16 associations or groups organized on a cooperative basis; or
1-17 (2) is organized primarily for the harvesting,
1-18 preserving, drying, processing, canning, storing, handling,
1-19 shipping, marketing, selling, or use of grain or grain-related
1-20 products.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.