1. (a) The State Seed and Plant Board is an agency of the state. The board is composed of six members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Membership must include:

   1. (1) one individual from the Soils and Crop Sciences Department, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A & M University;
   2. (2) one individual from the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Texas Tech University;
   3. (3) one individual licensed as a Texas Foundation, Registered, or Certified seed or plant producer who is not employed by a public institution;
   4. (4) one individual who sells Texas Foundation, Registered, or Certified seed or plants;
   5. (5) one individual actively engaged in farming but not a producer or seller of Texas Foundation, Registered, or Certified seed or plants; and
   6. (6) the head of the seed division of the department.
2. (b) An individual appointed from a state university or the department serves on the board as an ex officio member. A member serves for a term of two years and until a successor has qualified. Members serve without compensation but are entitled to reimbursement by the state for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
3. (c) A member whose employment is terminated with the agency or department from which the member was appointed or who ceases to be engaged in the business or professional activity that the member was appointed to represent vacates membership on the board.
4. (d) The governor shall designate a member of the board as the chairman to serve in that capacity at the pleasure of the governor. The board annually shall elect a vice-chairman and secretary. The board shall meet at times and places determined by the chairman.
5. (e) Appointments to the board shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the appointees.

Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1134, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.

Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 185, eff. Sept. 1, 1985;

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 729, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1985;

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 311, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1989;

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 419, Sec. 1.17, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.