Cockrell’s proposed rule would make the annual 3% increase in the export fee

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

2. Cockrell’s proposed rule would make the annual 3% increase in the export fee mandatory thereby (i) removing the Board’s discretion to elect, or not, to adopt the increase in any given year, and (ii) ignoring the unambiguous statutory mandate in HB 3059 for the Board to conduct a hearing each year before any such increase could be lawfully adopted .