By Swinford                                           H.B. No. 2432
         76R8458 BDH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to label requirements for certain sorghum seed.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 61, Agriculture Code, is amended by
 1-5     adding Section 61.0045 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 61.0045.  LABELING OF SORGHUM SEED CONTAINING TANNIN.
 1-7     In addition to other labeling requirements of this chapter, each
 1-8     container of sorghum seed containing tannin that is sold or offered
 1-9     or exposed for sale in this state shall bear or have attached in a
1-10     conspicuous place a plainly written or printed label in English
1-11     that contains the following statement relating to the contents of
1-12     the container:  "This sorghum seed will produce seed that contains
1-13     tannin.  This seed may be less valuable than other sorghum and may
1-14     be rejected by buyers of grain."
1-15           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-16           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies only to a
1-17     container of sorghum seed containing tannin that is sold or offered
1-18     or exposed for sale in this state on or after the effective date of
1-19     this Act.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.