By:  Oliveira                                         H.B. No. 1643
       73R5821 MI-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the transportation of aquatic products.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 47.0181(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  No person, except a commercial fisherman licensed to
    1-7  take aquatic products from Texas waters transporting the
    1-8  fisherman's own catch within this state, may transport aquatic
    1-9  products for commercial purposes, regardless of origin or
   1-10  destination, without an invoice containing the following
   1-11  information correctly stated and legibly written:
   1-12              (1)  the invoice number;
   1-13              (2)  the date of shipment;
   1-14              (3)  the name and physical address of shipper;
   1-15              (4)  the name and physical address of receiver;
   1-16              (5)  the license number of shipper; and
   1-17              (6)  the quantity of aquatic products contained in the
   1-18  shipment described as follows:<;>
   1-19                    (A)  finfish by species and by<,> number or <and>
   1-20  weight;<,>
   1-21                    (B)  oysters by volume;<,> and
   1-22                    (C)  <all> other aquatic products by weight.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 47.0182(a), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
   1-24  amended to read as follows:
    2-1        (a)  Each container of aquatic products shipped for
    2-2  commercial purposes must have a label attached to the outside
    2-3  listing the kind and weight of the aquatic product contained in the
    2-4  package, <following information> correctly stated and legibly
    2-5  written<:>
    2-6              <(1)  the aquatic product transportation invoice number
    2-7  of the shipment of which the container is a part; and>
    2-8              <(2)  the kind and weight of aquatic product>.
    2-9        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.