By: Phillips (Senate Sponsor - Perry) H.B. No. 3952 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs; May 16, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 2017, sent to printer.)Click here to see the committee vote A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to suspension of the activities of the Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 41, Agriculture Code, is amended by adding Section 41.128 to read as follows: Sec. 41.128. TEXAS GRAIN PRODUCER INDEMNITY BOARD. (a) The Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board is not abolished but is inactive as provided by this section until reactivated under Subsection (d). (b) The terms of office of the members of the Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board expire, as determined by the commissioner, on December 31, 2017, or when the board files the report under Section 41.059(c) for the board's fiscal year that includes September 1, 2017. That report is the board's final report unless the board is reactivated under Subsection (d). (c) While the board is inactive, the department shall administer the grain producer indemnity fund. From money available in the fund, the department shall pay all or part of any claims under Subchapter I that the department determines are valid. When the department determines that no potential claims remain, the department shall refund any money remaining in the fund to grain producers who paid an assessment under Section 41.206 on a pro rata basis. (d) The commissioner shall order the reactivation of the Texas Grain Producer Indemnity Board if at least 200 grain producers petition the commissioner to reactivate the board. If the board is reactivated, the commissioner shall appoint board members as provided by Section 41.204. SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. * * * * *