Bill Text: TX HB1371 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation of the Trade Agricultural Inspection Grant Program.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-15 - Effective immediately [HB1371 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1371-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1371 | ||
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| relating to the continuation of the Trade Agricultural Inspection | ||
| Grant Program. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 12.050(k) and (l), Agriculture Code, | ||
| are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (k) Not later than January 15, 2025 [ |
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| shall evaluate the performance of the program under this section | ||
| and submit a report to the legislature. The report must include an | ||
| evaluation of agricultural inspections affected by the program, | ||
| including the extent to which the program is reducing wait times for | ||
| agricultural inspections of vehicles at ports of entry along the | ||
| border with the United Mexican States. | ||
| (l) Unless continued in existence by the legislature, this | ||
| section expires September 1, 2025 [ |
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| SECTION 2. The Department of Agriculture is required to | ||
| implement a provision of this Act only if the legislature | ||
| appropriates money specifically for that purpose. If the | ||
| legislature does not appropriate money specifically for that | ||
| purpose, the department may, but is not required to, implement a | ||
| provision of this Act using other appropriations available for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1371 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 21, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 135, Nays 14, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 1371 on May 28, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 119, Nays 21, | ||
| 1 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1371 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
