Bill Text: TX HB3952 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to suspension of the activities of the Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-15 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB3952 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3952-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3952 |
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relating to suspension of the activities of the Texas Grain | ||
Producer Indemnity Board. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 41, Agriculture Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 41.128 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 41.128. TEXAS GRAIN PRODUCER INDEMNITY BOARD. (a) The | ||
Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board is not abolished but is | ||
inactive as provided by this section until reactivated under | ||
Subsection (d). | ||
(b) The terms of office of the members of the Texas Grain | ||
Producer Indemnity Board expire, as determined by the commissioner, | ||
on December 31, 2017, or when the board files the report under | ||
Section 41.059(c) for the board's fiscal year that includes | ||
September 1, 2017. That report is the board's final report unless | ||
the board is reactivated under Subsection (d). | ||
(c) While the board is inactive, the department shall | ||
administer the grain producer indemnity fund. From money available | ||
in the fund, the department shall pay all or part of any claims | ||
under Subchapter I that the department determines are valid. When | ||
the department determines that no potential claims remain, the | ||
department shall refund any money remaining in the fund to grain | ||
producers who paid an assessment under Section 41.206 on a pro rata | ||
basis. | ||
(d) The commissioner shall order the reactivation of the | ||
Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board if at least 200 grain | ||
producers petition the commissioner to reactivate the board. If | ||
the board is reactivated, the commissioner shall appoint board | ||
members as provided by Section 41.204. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3952 was passed by the House on May 4, | ||
2017, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3952 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |