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1	1	By: Eiland, Harless, Ritter H.B. No. 1903
2	2	(Senate Sponsor - Williams)
3	3	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 6, 2013;
4	4	May 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
5	5	May 15, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 14,
6	6	Nays 0; May 15, 2013, sent to printer.)
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9	9	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	10	AN ACT
11	11	relating to the allocation of amounts deposited into the oyster
12	12	sales account and the abolishment of the oyster advisory committee.
13	13	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	14	SECTION 1. Sections 436.103(e) and (f), Health and Safety
15	15	Code, are amended to read as follows:
16	16	(e) Before any other disposition of the fees and penalties
17	17	collected under this section is made, two percent of the amount of
18	18	the fees and penalties shall be deposited in the state treasury for
19	19	appropriation for the use of the comptroller in the administration
20	20	and enforcement of this section. The remainder of the fees and
21	21	penalties collected under this section shall be deposited to the
22	22	credit of the oyster sales account in the general revenue fund to be
23	23	allocated each year for oyster-related activities, including:
24	24	(1) collecting bay water and shellfish meat samples;
25	25	(2) contracting for sample analysis for
26	26	classification and opening or closing of oyster harvesting areas;
27	27	(3) marking the boundaries of areas that are
28	28	designated open or closed under this subchapter;
29	29	(4) studying oyster diseases and other concerns
30	30	affecting the availability of oysters for harvest;
31	31	(5) studying and analyzing organisms that may be
32	32	associated with human illness and that can be transmitted through
33	33	the consumption of oysters;
34	34	(6) contributing to the support of the oyster shell
35	35	recovery and replacement program created under Section 76.020,
36	36	Parks and Wildlife Code [promotion and advertising of the Texas
37	37	oyster industry by the Texas Department of Agriculture, including
38	38	information, education, and training to consumers on safe and
39	39	proper handling of oysters]; and
40	40	(7) other oyster-related activities authorized or
41	41	required by this chapter.
42	42	(f) After deducting the amount deposited into the state
43	43	treasury for the comptroller's use under Subsection (e), the
44	44	comptroller at the beginning of each state fiscal year shall
45	45	allocate $100,000 of the unencumbered balance deposited to the
46	46	credit of the oyster sales account in the general revenue fund to
47	47	Texas A&M University at Galveston for use in performing the
48	48	activities described by Subsection (e)(5). The remainder of the
49	49	money [Money] in the oyster sales account may [shall first] be
50	50	allocated only for the purposes described by Subsection (e)
51	51	[allocated for funding the public health activities of bay water
52	52	and shellfish meat sample collection and analysis and wholesale,
53	53	retail, and consumer education before money is allocated for
54	54	research or promotion].
55	55	SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 47, Agriculture Code, is
56	56	repealed, and the oyster advisory committee established under
57	57	Section 47.002, Agriculture Code, is abolished on the effective
58	58	date of this Act.
59	59	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
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