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Agriculture Code § 12.006
The department must study market expansion and gather farmer-useful information about cotton and other agricultural or horticultural products.
- Market development
- Trade information
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Agriculture Code § 12.007
The department must investigate crop diseases and harmful insects, and supervise protection of fruit trees, shrubs, and plants as provided by law.
- Crop health
- Pest control
- Plant protection
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Agriculture Code § 12.010
The department must correspond with agriculture-related government bodies to gather information that will help agriculture in the state, and it may also correspond with foreign agriculture departments and U.S. representatives abroad.
- Agriculture administration
- Government correspondence
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Agriculture Code § 12.011
The department must collect and publish statistics and other information it considers beneficial for developing the state’s agricultural resources.
- Information publication
- Statistics collection
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Agriculture Code § 12.013
The department may hire staff, and the commissioner must provide employee information, set up annual performance evaluations, create a career ladder program, maintain an equal employment opportunity policy, and send a biennial report to the legislature through the governor's office.
- Equal employment opportunity
- Performance evaluation
- Personnel management
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Agriculture Code § 12.0135
This section bars certain people from serving in specified department roles if they have ties to Texas agricultural trade associations or, for general counsel, if they must register as lobbyists.
- Lobbying
- Public employment
- Trade associations
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Agriculture Code § 12.0144
The department must adopt by rule a fee schedule and, unless an activity is exempted in the General Appropriations Act, set fees to offset regulatory costs when feasible.
- Fees
- Regulatory costs
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Agriculture Code § 12.0145
The department must include a proposed fee schedule in each legislative appropriations request to the Legislative Budget Board.
- Appropriations requests
- Fee schedules
- Regulatory programs
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Agriculture Code § 12.015
The department must cooperate with Texas A&M University and the agricultural experiment stations on matters related to the state's agricultural and horticultural interests.
- Agricultural research
- State agency cooperation
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Agriculture Code § 12.016
The department may adopt rules needed to administer its powers and duties under this code.
- Agency administration
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 12.0175
The department must create the GO-TEXAN program by rule and may charge participants a membership fee.
- Definitions
- Licenses and certificates
- Membership fees
- Program administration
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Agriculture Code § 12.0176
The department may, if resources are available, make a cooperative agreement with a commodity producers board to promote Texas agricultural products.
- Agricultural promotion
- Commodity producers boards
- Government agreements
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Agriculture Code § 12.0177
Certain collected amounts must be deposited into the Texas nursery and floral account, and the department may use money in that account only for grants promoting Texas nursery and floral industries or for administering this section.
- Grants
- Industry promotion
- Special accounts
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Agriculture Code § 12.018
The department may test agricultural products and perform laboratory analyses on request, and it must set by rule the fee for each type of laboratory analysis.
- Fees
- Laboratory analysis
- Testing services
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Agriculture Code § 12.020
This section lets the department impose administrative penalties for certain violations and sets the notice, hearing, payment, and judicial review steps.
- Administrative penalties
- Appeals
- Enforcement
- Hearings
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Agriculture Code § 12.0201
The department may sanction a license holder for certain violations, including revoking, suspending, modifying, refusing, penalizing, probation, or reprimand.
- License sanctions
- Professional discipline
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Agriculture Code § 12.0202
If the department seeks to suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a license, the affected person is entitled to a hearing before the State Office of Administrative Hearings.
- Administrative hearings
- License discipline
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Agriculture Code § 12.0203
The commissioner must create a policy that encourages negotiated rulemaking and alternative dispute resolution, and must designate a trained person to help carry it out.
- Agency procedures
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Data collection
- Rulemaking
- Training
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Agriculture Code § 12.0204
The department may create advisory committees, and if it does, it must adopt rules for how the committee works.
- Advisory committees
- Governance
- Rulemaking
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Agriculture Code § 12.0205
The department and the office of the attorney general must enter a memorandum of understanding to coordinate consumer protection enforcement.
- Enforcement coordination
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