Bill Text: TX HB1479 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to charging exorbitant or excessive prices for certain agricultural goods during a declared disaster.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-05 - Referred to Business & Industry [HB1479 Detail]

Download: Texas-2021-HB1479-Introduced.html

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87R3765 MWC-F
By: Cyrier H.B. No. 1479

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to charging exorbitant or excessive prices for certain
agricultural goods during a declared disaster.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 17.4625, Business & Commerce Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) For purposes of Section 17.46(b)(27), the price of a
meat food product or a poultry product, as those terms are defined
by Section 433.003, Health and Safety Code, or an egg, as defined by
Section 132.001, Agriculture Code, that is sold or offered for sale
by a grower, producer, or processor of the product or egg is not
considered exorbitant or excessive if the price for the product or
egg is:
(1) a contract price;
(2) the result of a price formula; or
(3) based on a pricing index.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an act or practice that occurs on or after the effective date of
this Act. An act or practice that occurs before the effective date
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the act or
practice occurred, and the former law is continued in effect for
that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.