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Senate Bill 1668 |
Senate Author: Averitt |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
House Sponsor: Hilderbran |
Senate Bill 1668 amends the Parks and Wildlife Code to require the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission to allocate net revenue from the sale of stamps that are included in a combination hunting and fishing license to individual stamp funds according to a methodology the commission establishes. The bill requires the methodology to incorporate the proportionate discounted price of each stamp, the estimated utilization of each stamp, or a combination of the two methods. The bill deletes a shrimp house operator license and an individual bait-shrimp trawl license from provisions that require the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to increase the fee for certain licenses and deposit the amount of the increase to the credit of the shrimp license buyback account. The bill also gives the department the authority to issue items authorized by federal law through the use of automated equipment and a point-of-sale system.