Amend CSHB 3948 (senate committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering the SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 41.002(1), Agriculture Code, is amended to read as follows:
(1) "Agricultural commodity" means an agricultural, horticultural, viticultural, or vegetable product, bees and honey, planting seed, rice, hemp, livestock or livestock product, or poultry or poultry product, produced in this state, either in its natural state or as processed by the producer. The term does not include flax.
SECTION ____. Section 141.008, Agriculture Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 141.008. HEMP IN COMMERCIAL FEED. (a) The service shall [may] adopt rules authorizing, defining, and controlling the use of hemp and hemp products in commercial feed.
(b) Rules adopted under this section must authorize the use of hemp as commercial feed or an ingredient or component of commercial feed for:
(1) pets, specialty and exotic pets, horses, and other animals that are not intended for human consumption or for the production of animal byproducts intended for human consumption; and
(2) only to the extent authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration, animals that are intended for human consumption or for the production of animal byproducts intended for human consumption.