Bill Text: TX HB2029 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the exemption of certain commercial weighing or measuring devices from registration and inspection requirements.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB2029 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2029-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2029 | ||
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| relating to the exemption of certain commercial weighing or | ||
| measuring devices from registration and inspection requirements. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 13, Agriculture Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 13.1002 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 13.1002. EXEMPTION OF CERTAIN WEIGHING OR MEASURING | ||
| DEVICES. Notwithstanding any other law, a commercial weighing or | ||
| measuring device that is exclusively used to weigh food sold for | ||
| immediate consumption is exempt from this subchapter, including the | ||
| inspection requirements under Section 13.101 and the registration | ||
| requirements under Section 13.1011. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2029 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2029 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
