By Holzheauser                                         H.B. No. 716
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 716:
          By Chisum                                          C.S.H.B. No. 716
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to bounties for predatory animals.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 825.031(a), Health and Safety Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  The commissioners court of a county may pay bounties for
    1-7  killing predatory animals <cougars, bobcats, jaguars, ocelots,
    1-8  jaguarondis, gray wolves, red wolves, Florida wolves, coyotes,
    1-9  javelinas, or rattlesnakes>.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Section 825.031(c), Health and Safety Code, is
   1-11  amended to read as follows:
   1-12        (c)  The commissioners court may determine the amount of a
   1-13  <A> bounty to be paid under this section <may not exceed $5> for
   1-14  each animal.  The bounty <and> shall be paid from the general fund
   1-15  of the county<.  The bounty shall be paid> by a warrant drawn on
   1-16  that fund by the county judge on presentation of proof of
   1-17  destruction required by the commissioners court.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars create an emergency and an
   1-20  imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule requiring
   1-21  bills to be read on three several days in each house be suspended,
   1-22  and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act take effect
   1-23  and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.