1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the meaning of "agricultural crop" for purposes of the
1-3 exemption of certain wells from fees charged by the North Harris
1-4 County Regional Water Authority.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 1.02, Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76th
1-7 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by amending
1-8 Subdivision (11) and adding Subdivisions (12), (13), and (14) to
1-9 read as follows:
1-10 (11) "Agricultural crop" means:
1-11 (A) a food or fiber commodity [commodities]
1-12 grown for resale or commercial purposes that provides [provide]
1-13 food, clothing, or animal feed; or
1-14 (B) a nursery product or florist item while in
1-15 the hands of a nursery grower.
1-16 (12) "Florist item" means a cut flower, potted plant,
1-17 blooming plant, inside foliage plant, bedding plant, corsage
1-18 flower, cut foliage, floral decoration, or live decorative
1-19 material.
1-20 (13) "Nursery grower" means a person who grows, in any
1-21 medium, more than 50 percent of the nursery products or florist
1-22 items that the person either sells or leases, regardless of the
1-23 variety sold, leased, or grown. For the purposes of this
1-24 definition, "grow" means the actual cultivation or propagation of
1-25 the nursery product or florist item beyond the mere holding or
2-1 maintaining of the item prior to sale or lease and typically
2-2 includes activities associated with the production or multiplying
2-3 of stock such as the development of new plants from cuttings,
2-4 grafts, plugs, or seedlings.
2-5 (14) "Nursery product" includes a tree, shrub, vine,
2-6 cutting, graft, scion, grass, bulb, or bud that is grown for, kept
2-7 for, or is capable of propagation and distribution for sale or
2-8 lease.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 270 passed the Senate on
March 8, 2001, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0, one
present, not voting.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 270 passed the House on
May 8, 2001, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor