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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