H.B. No. 901




AN ACT

relating to expiration dates for certain licenses issued or renewed 
by the Department of Agriculture.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 61.013(d), Agriculture Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(d)  A vegetable seed license expires on the first 
anniversary of the date on which it was issued or renewed [August 31 
of each year].
	SECTION 2.  Sections 76.113(a) and (b), Agriculture Code, 
are amended to read as follows:
	(a)  Each commercial applicator or noncommercial applicator 
license expires on the first anniversary of the date on [the last 
day of February of the year following the year in] which it was 
issued or renewed.
	(b)  Each private applicator license expires on the fifth 
anniversary of the date on [the last day of February of the fifth 
year following the year in] which it was issued or renewed.
	SECTION 3.  Section 121.004(b), Agriculture Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(b)  A certificate of authority expires on the first 
anniversary of the date on [December 31 of the year in] which it was
[is] issued or renewed.
	SECTION 4.  Section 132.024, Agriculture Code, is amended to 
read as follows:
	Sec. 132.024.  LICENSE EXPIRATION [YEAR].  [(a)  Except as 
provided by Subsection (b) of this section, a license required by 
this chapter is valid from September 1 of each year through August 
31 of the following year.
	[(b)]  A license issued or renewed [to a new business] under 
this chapter expires on the first anniversary of [is valid from] the 
date of issuance or renewal [through the following August 31, 
unless the new license is issued in August, in which event the 
license is valid through August 31 of the following year].
	SECTION 5.  The change in law made by this Act applies only 
to a license issued or renewed on or after the effective date of 
this Act.  A license issued or renewed before the effective date of 
this Act is governed by the law in effect when the license was 
issued or renewed, and the former law is continued in effect for 
that purpose.
	SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.                           




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 901 was passed by the House on March 
23, 2005, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 901 was passed by the Senate on May 3, 
2005, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor