By Maxey                                              H.B. No. 1563
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the rehabilitation of wildlife.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 43.025(b), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  The application must be endorsed by two recognized
    1-7  specialists in the biological field concerned who are residents of
    1-8  the United States and have known the applicant for at least five
    1-9  years; except that endorsement is not required for an application
   1-10  for a permit to take alligators or marine life for aquarium
   1-11  purposes.  An endorsement of an application for a permit in which
   1-12  the rehabilitation of wildlife is authorized may be made by a
   1-13  specialist who has known the applicant for at least two years.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by Section 43.025(b),
   1-15  Parks and Wildlife Code, as amended by this Act, applies to an
   1-16  application for a rehabilitation permit under Subchapter C, Chapter
   1-17  43, Parks and Wildlife Code, that is submitted to the Parks and
   1-18  Wildlife Department on or after the effective date of this Act.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.