Cooperation With Certain Commodity Producers Boards

Sec. 12.0176. COOPERATION WITH CERTAIN COMMODITY PRODUCERS BOARDS. (a) The department may, to the extent that resources are available, enter into a cooperative agreement with a commodity producers board to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the promotion of Texas agricultural products. (b) A cooperative agreement may include: (1) provisions relating to the programs instituted by the department under this chapter and Chapter 46; (2) provisions relating to board contributions for promotional costs; and (3) any other provisions the department and the board consider appropriate. (c) Funds contributed by a board under an agreement under this section are not state funds. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., 3rd C.S., ch. 3, Sec. 25.01, eff. Jan. 11, 2004.