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House Bill 1724 |
House Author: Guillen |
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Effective: 9-1-17 |
Senate Sponsor: Rodríguez |
House Bill 1724 amends the Parks and Wildlife Code to create the commercial license buyback subaccount in the game, fish, and water safety account to be used to buy back commercial fishing licenses from willing license holders. The bill specifies sources of revenue to be deposited by the Parks and Wildlife Department to the credit of the commercial license buyback subaccount. The bill abolishes the shrimp license buyback account and requires the comptroller of public accounts to transfer the unencumbered balance of the account to the commercial license buyback subaccount. The bill revises provisions relating to the finfish license buyback program and the crab license buyback program to reflect the creation of the commercial license buyback subaccount.