Journal of the Senate, Regular Session of the Eighty-Third Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 2 Page: 1,054
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1054 83rd Legislature - Regular Session 43rd Day
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that a governmental entity that receives
appropriated funds and that has discretion whether to grant to a domestic private
entity a credit, exemption, or discount on a tax or fee imposed by the state determine
that the domestic private entity is ineligible for the credit, exemption, or discount if,
during the two years preceding the date of the determination of whether to grant the
credit, exemption, or discount, the domestic private entity:
(1) created employment suitable for performance in the United States in a
country other than the United States; and
(2) as a result of that employment, eliminated or failed to create similar
employment in the United States.
Floor Amendment No. 232
Amend CSSB 1 in Article VII of the bill by adding the following appropriately
numbered rider following the appropriations to the Texas Department of
Transportation:
. Native Seed Study and Report. (a) Out of amounts appropriated above in
Strategy A. 1.4, Research, the Department of Transportation shall publish a report on
the demand for native seeds in this state.
(b) In this rider, "native seed" means a seed or plant found in, and naturally
endemic to, ecosystems, sites, or regions in the present borders of this state, as to
which the best available information indicates an indigenous nature precluding the
seed's or plant's introduction or transport to this state from some other location by
nonnatural conveyances. The term includes improved varieties of native seeds.
Plants and seeds not meeting the definition of native are designated as "non-native".
(c) In conducting the study, the Department of Transportation shall consider:
(1) geographic, regional, or district use of specific varieties of native seed
for restoration projects administered by the department, the department's contractor's,
or assignees;
(2) determinations of the percentage of the department's restoration projects
utilizing native seed versus non-native seed, including blends of native and non-native
seed, by geographic region or district including projects performed by the department,
the department's contractors or assignees;
(3) ways the department can assist in cultivating the demand for native
seeds.
(4) methods for overcoming market barriers that prevent or inhibit the sale
or production of native seeds;
(5) methodology and procedures whereby the department, and the
department's contactors or assignees, shall forecast the future needs of native seed for
restoration projects by geographic region;
(6) a review of the department's procedures and practices of blending native
seeds with invasive species;
(7) a review of the department's contacts with commercial producers; and
(8) the methodology and procedures developed for forecasting the
department's, and its contactors and assignees, future needs for native seed shall
initially be for the years 2015 through 2020 and the department shall thenceforth
maintain a five year forecast for native seed restoration project needs.1054
83rd Legislature - Regular Session
43rd Day
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. Journal of the Senate, Regular Session of the Eighty-Third Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 2, legislative document, 2013; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth638903/m1/74/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.