1-1  By:  Black (Senate Sponsor - Sims)                     H.B. No. 607
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 11, 1993;
    1-3  March 15, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Natural Resources; April 1, 1993, reported favorably by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 1, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Sims               x                               
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos                                     x   
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Brown              x                               
   1-14        Carriker           x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Montford                                       x   
   1-17        Ratliff            x                               
   1-18        Shelley                                        x   
   1-19                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-20                                AN ACT
   1-21  relating to the use of deer and turkey tags issued by the Parks and
   1-22  Wildlife Department.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 42.018(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
   1-25  amended to read as follows:
   1-26        (b)  A tag is properly executed only when the month and the
   1-27  date of the kill are cut out and the tag <it> is filled out to show
   1-28  the <date and> place the deer to which the tag is attached was
   1-29  killed and to show other information required on the tag by the
   1-30  commission.
   1-31        SECTION 2.  Section 42.0185(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
   1-32  amended to read as follows:
   1-33        (b)  A turkey tag is properly executed only when the month
   1-34  and the date of the kill are cut out and the tag <it> is filled out
   1-35  to show the <date and> place the turkey to which the tag is
   1-36  attached was killed and to show other information required on the
   1-37  tag.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-39        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-40  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-41  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-42  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-43  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-45                                                         Austin,
   1-46  Texas
   1-47                                                         April 1, 1993
   1-48  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-49  President of the Senate
   1-50  Sir:
   1-51  We, your Committee on Natural Resources to which was referred H.B.
   1-52  No. 607, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-53  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-54  pass and be printed.
   1-55                                                         Sims,
   1-56  Chairman
   1-57                               * * * * *
   1-58                               WITNESSES
   1-59                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-60  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-61  Name:  Charles Hensley                                         x
   1-62  Representing:  Tx Parks and Wildlife Dept.
   1-63  City:  Austin
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   1-65  Name:  Arthur Nagel                              x
   1-66  Representing:  Riverside and Landowners
   1-67  City:  Boerne
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    2-1  Name:  Alton E. Naderson                         x
    2-2  Representing:  Tx Game Warden Assoc.
    2-3  City:  W. Columbia
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