73R5803 MLR-D
          By Johnson                                            H.B. No. 1455
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the hunter education program.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 62.014(a) and (e), Parks and Wildlife
    1-5  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  In this section:
    1-7              (1)  "Firearm" means any device designed, made, or
    1-8  adapted to expel a projectile through a barrel by using the energy
    1-9  generated by an explosion or burning substance or any device
   1-10  readily convertible to that use.
   1-11              (2)  "Archery equipment" means a long bow that is
   1-12  hand-held and hand-drawn and used for hunting purposes <capable of
   1-13  shooting a hunting arrow equipped with a broadhead hunting point
   1-14  for a distance of 130 yards>.
   1-15        (e)  The commission may maximize the utilization of volunteer
   1-16  instructors to minimize the costs of the course and is authorized
   1-17  to charge a fee not to exceed $15 to defray administrative costs.
   1-18  Fees collected under this subsection shall be deposited to the
   1-19  credit of the game, fish, and water safety fund.  The commission by
   1-20  rule may establish a procedure to allow a volunteer instructor to
   1-21  retain an amount from the fees collected by the instructor under
   1-22  this subsection to cover the instructor's actual and necessary
   1-23  out-of-pocket expenses.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-1        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.