If cotton growers voting in a retention referendum conducted under the Texas Agriculture Code (Code), §74.114, or a recall referendum conducted under the Code, §74.112, approve discontinuation of the eradication program in an eradication zone, all debts of the eradication zone shall be repaid. Assessments shall continue annually on any grower planting cotton in the eradication zone in subsequent years until all debts of the eradication zone are paid.