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.