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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