![]() Landowners who are deployed or stationed outside of Texas should notify their county appraisal district of their duty station and intent to return and use the property within 30 days of deployment. This bill ensures that military members will not lose open- space valuation for property tax purposes if they are unable to keep land in agriculture while they are deployed or stationed outside of Texas so long as they intend to resume the qualifying use within 180 days of their return from deployment or being stationed out of state. ![]() HB 777 was signed by Governor Abbott on and went into effect immediately. This amendment became effective on September 1. Click here to read a prior blog post I wrote detailing this statute. The Use of Unmanned Aircraft statute was amended by HB 1643 to include confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to the list of “critical infrastructure” facilities, allowing CAFOs certain statutory protections from drone flights. ![]() Essentially, this means that local governments may not adopt regulations related to seeds, such as prohibiting planting GMO seed in their area, for example. This law states that a political subdivision may not adopt an ordinance related to agricultural seed, vegetable seed, weed seed, or any other seed in any manner, including planting seed or cultivating plants grown from seed. SB 1172 passed and was signed into law by Governor Abbott, effective on September 1. I’ve written a more detailed blog post on this new law previously, which can be found here. Specifically, it requires express delineation between acreage and production contracts and limits the ability of a purchaser to sue a producer based on a production contract. It passed, signed by Governor Abbott, and became law on September 1, 2017. HB 338, known as the Producer Protection Act, relates to agricultural production purchase contracts. To look up more information about any of these bills or to search for other bills by number or topic, visit Texas Legislature Online. Given the total number of bills introduced, this is not an exhaustive list of every bill that came up this session, but instead highlights some of the more important and more popular bills related to agriculture. Here is a look at some of the key agriculture-related bills considered in Austin this year. The 85th Legislative Session has come to a close.
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