Tex. Agric. Code § 50B.001 · Chapter 50B. TEXAS WINE INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT ACT
FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The legislature finds that:
(1) it is in the public interest to encourage the orderly growth and development of sustainable labor-intensive, value-added agricultural industries such as the wine grape growing and wine making industries;
(2) the production and distribution of wine and wine-related products constitute an important industry of this state that stimulates tourism and provides substantial and necessary revenues for the state and employment for the state's residents and provides an important food that benefits the public health and welfare; and
(3) it is vital to the continued economic well-being and general welfare of the citizens of this state that the state's wine grapes and wine be properly promoted by:
(A) enabling the wine industry in this state to help itself in establishing orderly, fair, sound, efficient, and unhampered marketing of wine grapes and the wines they produce; and
(B) working to stabilize the wine industry in the state by increasing markets for wine grapes and wine within the state and the nation and internationally.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 878 (S.B. 1137), Sec. 2, eff. June 17, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/AG/htm/AG.50B.htm
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