Bill Text: TX SB378 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the date by which a pest management zone or cotton grower may request an extension of the cotton stalk destruction deadline.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-19 - Effective on 9/1/11 [SB378 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB378-Introduced.html
  82R3630 TRH-D
 
  By: Hegar S.B. No. 378
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the date by which a pest management zone may request an
  extension of the cotton stalk destruction deadline.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 74.0032(b), Agriculture Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  If adverse weather conditions or other good cause
  exists, the administrative committee that governs the applicable
  pest management zone may request that the department grant an
  extension of the cotton stalk destruction deadline for any
  specified part of the pest management zone or for the entire pest
  management zone.  A request under this subsection must be made
  within the period specified by department rule [not later than 10
  business days before the applicable cotton stalk destruction
  deadline].  A field is not subject to a hostable cotton fee if the
  department grants an extension of the deadline.  The Texas Boll
  Weevil Eradication Foundation shall submit to the department an
  estimate of the amount by which an extension under this subsection
  will increase the cost of administering the boll weevil eradication
  program.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by Section 74.0032,
  Agriculture Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a request
  for an extension made on or after the effective date of this Act. A
  request for an extension made before the effective date of this Act
  is subject to the law in effect on that date, and that law is
  continued in effect for that purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.
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