By: Burns H.B. No. 3663       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to marketing contracts and agricultural liens.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 70.4045(c), Property Code, is amended to   read as follows:                (c)  Notwithstanding Chapter 9, Business & Commerce   Code, a lien created and perfected under this subchapter has   priority over a conflicting security interest in or lien on the   agricultural crop or the proceeds from the sale of the crop created   by the contract purchaser in favor of a third party, [other than   a   cotton ginner's lien   created under Section 70.003(d),] regardless   of the date the security interest or lien created by the contract   purchaser attached. This subsection does not: [affect a security   interest or lien   created and perfected to   secure a loan directly to   the agricultural producer.]          (1)  affect the validity or priority of a security interest   or lien created and perfected to secure a loan directly to the   agricultural producer;          (2)  affect the validity or priority of a cotton ginner's   lien created under Section 70.003(d);          (3)  apply to a contract purchaser who purchases an   agricultural crop from an agricultural producer pursuant to a   marketing contract created under Section 52.016, Agriculture Code,   or under Title 7, USC (specifically Chapter 35A, Subchapter I, §      1421, and Subchapter II, § 1441, and Chapter 106, Subchapter II, §§   7931-7939) and Title 15, Chapter 15, Subchapter II, USC (statutes   relating to the Commodity Credit Corporation, and specifically §§   714b, 714c, and 714j).          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.