BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2153 |
By: Callegari |
Agriculture & Livestock |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Current law provides for wind erosion conservation districts to conserve soil by preventing unnecessary erosion caused by wind. Interested parties indicate that this law is now obsolete, having gone unused for several decades due in part to the soil conservation programs maintained by the State Soil and Water Conservation Board. C.S.H.B. 2153 seeks to remove these unnecessary districts and to transfer the net proceeds of the disposal of district assets to the county in which each district is located.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2153 amends the Agriculture Code to repeal provisions relating to the creation and governance of wind erosion conservation districts. The bill provides for the dissolution of such districts by specified county officials in a county in which a district is located and requires the county judge or the judge's designee, after paying all debts and disposing of all assets of the district, to transfer to the county in which the district is located all net proceeds of the disposal of assets.
C.S.H.B. 2153 repeals Chapter 202, Agriculture Code.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2153 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and highlighted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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