Tex. Agric. Code § 58.031 · Subchapter D. BONDS
ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board by resolution may periodically provide for the issuance of general obligation bonds as authorized by the Texas Constitution for the establishment of the Texas agricultural fund and the rural microenterprise development fund.
(b) Before authorizing the issuance of any general obligation bonds, the board must determine that the issuance of revenue bonds is not an economically advisable alternative for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
(c) The authority may issue and sell general obligation bonds of the state for the purpose of providing money to establish a Texas agricultural fund. The authority may issue the bonds in one or several installments.
(d) Proceeds of the bonds issued under Subsection (c) of this section shall be deposited in the Texas agricultural fund and applied in accordance with the resolution authorizing the bonds:
(1) to provide financial assistance to eligible agricultural businesses;
(2) to pay costs of issuance of those bonds and the administration of any financial assistance program established with money in the Texas agricultural fund; and
(3) together with any other available funds, to pay the principal of or interest on or to discharge or redeem, in whole or in part, any outstanding bonds issued by the authority.
(e) The authority may issue and sell general obligation bonds of the state for the purpose of providing money to establish a rural microenterprise development fund. The authority may issue the bonds in one or several installments.
(f) Proceeds of the bonds issued under Subsection (e) of this section shall be deposited in the rural microenterprise development fund, which is created in Section 44.013.
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History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1247, Sec. 1, eff. Nov. 7, 1989. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 1014, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.
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