Bill Text: TX HB3952 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to suspension of the activities of the Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
