By: Duncan, Ogden S.B. No. 448 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the boll weevil eradication program. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 74, Agriculture Code, is amended by 1-4 adding Subchapter E to read as follows: 1-5 SUBCHAPTER E. COST-SHARING FOR BOLL WEEVIL ERADICATION 1-6 Sec. 74.151. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: 1-7 (1) "Boll weevil" and "pink bollworm" have the 1-8 meanings assigned by Section 74.002. 1-9 (2) "Commissioner" has the meaning assigned by Section 1-10 74.102. 1-11 Sec. 74.152. CREATION OF COST-SHARING PROGRAM. As part of 1-12 the program to eradicate the boll weevil and the pink bollworm 1-13 under this chapter, a cost-sharing program is created to be 1-14 administered under this chapter and rules adopted by the 1-15 commissioner. 1-16 Sec. 74.153. COST-SHARING PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. (a) The 1-17 commissioner may contract to obtain boll weevil eradication 1-18 services for the state with the entity named under Section 74.1011. 1-19 (b) If the commissioner contracts to obtain boll weevil 1-20 eradication services with the entity named under Section 74.1011, 1-21 the department may not provide funding for the service at a rate 1-22 that is greater than the rate set in the General Appropriations 1-23 Act. 1-24 (c) The department may spend money under the cost-sharing 2-1 program only in a zone in which: 2-2 (1) a boll weevil eradication project under this 2-3 chapter is active; or 2-4 (2) boll weevil eradication has been declared complete 2-5 by the United States Department of Agriculture or its designee. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.