1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1304 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources; 1-4 April 16, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 16, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1304 By: Brown 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the control of aflatoxin. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 141.002, Agriculture Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-14 (e) Whole seed and whole grain offered for retail sale for 1-15 wildlife feed are commercial feeds subject to this chapter. 1-16 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 141, Agriculture Code, is 1-17 amended by adding Section 141.007 to read as follows: 1-18 Sec. 141.007. AFLATOXIN CONTROL. The service shall 1-19 establish by rule aflatoxin contamination levels considered safe 1-20 for whole seed and whole grain offered for retail sale for wildlife 1-21 feed. 1-22 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-23 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-28 * * * * *