73R5392 MI-F
          By Erickson                                           H.B. No. 1146
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to statistical reporting by aquatic products dealers.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 66.019(b), (c), and (d), Parks and
    1-5  Wildlife Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The department shall prescribe the method or methods
    1-7  used to gather information and shall<,> produce<,> and distribute
    1-8  any applicable <the> report forms <form>.  <The form shall be
    1-9  designed to allow for statistical information concerning the
   1-10  numbers and quantity by weight of each species taken, the kinds of
   1-11  equipment used to take each species, and the name of the body of
   1-12  water from which each species was taken.>
   1-13        (c)  Unless otherwise required by the department, no <No>
   1-14  dealer who purchases or receives aquatic products directly from any
   1-15  person other than a licensed dealer may fail to file the report
   1-16  with the department each month on or before the 10th day of the
   1-17  month following the month in which the reportable activity
   1-18  occurred.  The report must be filed even if no reportable activity
   1-19  occurs in the month covered by the report.  No dealer required to
   1-20  report may file an incorrect or false report.  A culpable mental
   1-21  state is not required to establish an offense under this section.
   1-22        (d)  Unless otherwise required by the department, no <No>
   1-23  dealer who purchases, receives, or handles aquatic products, other
   1-24  than oysters, from any person except another dealer may fail to:
    2-1              (1)  maintain cash sale tickets in the form required by
    2-2  this section as records of cash sale transactions; or
    2-3              (2)  make the cash sale tickets available for
    2-4  examination by authorized employees of the department for
    2-5  statistical purposes or as a part of an ongoing investigation of a
    2-6  criminal violation during reasonable business hours of the dealer.
    2-7        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.