By Bivins                                             S.B. No. 1241
         76R7096 BDH-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to voting by members of an agricultural cooperative
 1-3     marketing association.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 52.085(b), Agriculture Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  A marketing association may provide in its articles of
 1-8     incorporation or bylaws for a member association or group to have
 1-9     more than one vote if the association providing for the vote:
1-10                 (1)  is organized primarily for the production,
1-11     cultivation, and care of citrus groves or for processing and
1-12     marketing citrus products and: [;]
1-13                       (A) [(2)]  has its principal office in a county
1-14     that has at least 500 acres of land planted in citrus groves; and
1-15                       (B) [(3)]  includes as members one or more
1-16     associations or groups organized on a cooperative basis; or
1-17                 (2)  is organized primarily for the harvesting,
1-18     preserving, drying, processing, canning, storing, handling,
1-19     shipping, marketing, selling, or use of grain or grain-related
1-20     products.
1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-2     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-3     passage, and it is so enacted.