East Texas State Rep. Money discusses bills left to vote on in 89th legislative session
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — The 89th Texas Legislature will adjourn in June 2025 and recently KETK spoke with one East Texas State Representative about the bills waiting for a vote in this year's legislative session.
Bill looks to allow small egg producers to sell ungraded eggs wholesale
'So we finished last Friday with all of the bills that originated in the House,' Rep. Brent Money of Hopkins, Hunt and Van Zandt counties told KETK. 'It's now too late for any bill that started in the House to become law. There are House bills in the Senate, and there are Senate bills in the House. I think that we're going to see a lot of priority items hit in this last session.'
Money spoke with KETK's Tori Bean about the priorities they're trying to accomplish before the end of this session. These are priority bills like Senate Bill 1864, which is waiting for a vote in the House.
'I think to most people in Texas, a priority item is the things that you handle first to the exclusion of the non-priority items. The way it works in the Texas Legislature and particularly in the Texas House, is we save all the priority items for the very end,' Money said.
SB 1864 would allow egg farmers to save money by selling ungraded chicken eggs. The Texas Senate on April 24 but is still waiting for a vote in the house.
'This is a bill that allows, for egg producers who are small, small chicken farms, to be able to sell ungraded eggs,' Money said. According to the Texas Legislature, the bill has been placed on the General State Calendar for this Tuesday.
'It has really nothing to do with the quality of the egg. A person who sells ungraded eggs under SB 1846 would be able to sell a certain number of them, wholesale or retail, as long as the package was clearly marked that they were ungraded, it says the producer's name, where they, where they're from, the date the carton was packed,' Money said. 'There's some basic information that they would have to provide, but they wouldn't have to go through the process of grading each egg, which is either very labor-intensive or capital-intensive, requiring machinery to weigh and size the eggs.'
Money ended his conversation with Tori by talking about some of his other priorities and how he hopes they'll be able to prioritize bills better in the next session of the Texas Legislature. To see their full conversation watch the video above.
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