1-1 By: Swinford (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 1845
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 11, 1999, reported favorably by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to voting by members of an agricultural cooperative
1-9 marketing association.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 52.085(b), Agriculture Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (b) A marketing association may provide in its articles of
1-14 incorporation or bylaws for a member association or group to have
1-15 more than one vote if the association providing for the vote:
1-16 (1) is organized primarily for the production,
1-17 cultivation, and care of citrus groves or for processing and
1-18 marketing citrus products and: [;]
1-19 (A) [(2)] has its principal office in a county
1-20 that has at least 500 acres of land planted in citrus groves; and
1-21 (B) [(3)] includes as members one or more
1-22 associations or groups organized on a cooperative basis; or
1-23 (2) is organized primarily for the harvesting,
1-24 preserving, drying, processing, canning, storing, handling,
1-25 shipping, marketing, selling, or use of grain or grain-related
1-26 products.
1-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33 passage, and it is so enacted.
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