1-1 By: Lindsay S.B. No. 270
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 17, 2001; January 22, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources;
1-4 March 1, 2001, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 1, 2001,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 270 By: Duncan
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the meaning of "agricultural crop" for purposes of the
1-11 exemption of certain wells from fees charged by the North Harris
1-12 County Regional Water Authority.
1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-14 SECTION 1. Section 1.02, Chapter 1029, Acts of the 76th
1-15 Legislature, Regular Session, 1999, is amended by amending
1-16 Subdivision (11) and adding Subdivisions (12), (13), and (14) to
1-17 read as follows:
1-18 (11) "Agricultural crop" means:
1-19 (A) a food or fiber commodity [commodities]
1-20 grown for resale or commercial purposes that provides [provide]
1-21 food, clothing, or animal feed; or
1-22 (B) a nursery product or florist item while in
1-23 the hands of a nursery grower.
1-24 (12) "Florist item" means a cut flower, potted plant,
1-25 blooming plant, inside foliage plant, bedding plant, corsage
1-26 flower, cut foliage, floral decoration, or live decorative
1-27 material.
1-28 (13) "Nursery grower" means a person who grows, in any
1-29 medium, more than 50 percent of the nursery products or florist
1-30 items that the person either sells or leases, regardless of the
1-31 variety sold, leased, or grown. For the purposes of this
1-32 definition, "grow" means the actual cultivation or propagation of
1-33 the nursery product or florist item beyond the mere holding or
1-34 maintaining of the item prior to sale or lease and typically
1-35 includes activities associated with the production or multiplying
1-36 of stock such as the development of new plants from cuttings,
1-37 grafts, plugs, or seedlings.
1-38 (14) "Nursery product" includes a tree, shrub, vine,
1-39 cutting, graft, scion, grass, bulb, or bud that is grown for, kept
1-40 for, or is capable of propagation and distribution for sale or
1-41 lease.
1-42 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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