Ag commissioner asks attorney general to weigh in on BBQ battle

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller asked the state attorney general’s office to back him up on his interpretation of a new BBQ deregulation law.
Lawmakers in 2017 passed House Bill 2029 — the BBQ bill — after Commissioner Miller began to thoroughly enforce a decades old law. The Texas legislature wanted to exempt BBQ restaurants from having their meat scales in view of the public.
But in the rule making process, Commissioner Miller’s departmen